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CBC News: Yarmouth horse owner spreads word about little-known tick-borne disease

ByCanLyme Team

Nov. 5th, 2019 A Yarmouth, N.S., horse owner wants others to know about anaplasma, a tick-borne disease that her horse, Sloane, contracted before Halloween. “If you see swollen legs on your horse, it means something, do something,” said Sarah LeBlanc, Sloane’s owner. Anaplasma causes serious fevers, loss of appetite and swollen and painful limbs. If a fever is left…

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They’ve faced asthma, allergies and Lyme disease — meet the teens who are suing Canada over climate change

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: This may just be the start of class action lawsuits.  The next will likely be over the dangerous and failed policy of giving only one dose of an antibiotic to ‘prevent’ Lyme disease. Not only is the evidence for it very weak, it is likely be a major driver of antibiotic resistance by just…

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1990 archive, MacLean’s magazine: A growing menace

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: Here we are 30 years later since the formation of the Lyme Borreliosis Society of BC, later rolled into CanLyme, and our government funded agencies with their bureaucrats collude with private medical associations (IDSA, AMMI, CPS), pharma, and medical insurers to deny access to appropriate diagnosis and care to hundreds of thousands. Our…

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Watch TV news series on Lyme disease…. Lyme and Reason

ByCanLyme Team

  Segment 1  LYME AND REASON: THE CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE OF LYME DISEASE Segment 2 LYME AND REASON: BATTLES AND BREAKTHROUGHS AGAINST LYME Segment 3 LYME & REASON 2.0: LYME DISEASE & THE VOICES OF CHANGE Segment 4 LYME & REASON: THE POWER OF INNOVATION Segment 5 LYME & REASON: DR. KRISTEN HONEY

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New York State Grants Approval for IGeneX’s Newly Developed Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever (TBRF) ImmunoBlot Tests

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: New York State has one of the strictest certification and approval processes in North America for laboratory tests.  Canadian medical authorities have done nothing but lie about, criticize and malign Igenex for many years based upon opinion not science, simply because Canadians were turning to Igenex for better testing. Igenex has helped thousands of…

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Lyme disease is an emergency. Instead of feeding the hype, we must support the science.

ByCanLyme Team

The controversy may be low-hanging fruit, but what we really need to focus on is a motherlode of hopeful research shining new light on the disease. Oct. 7, 2019, 2:18 AM PDT By Pamela Weintraub, health and psychology editor, Aeon   The fight over Lyme disease is one of the hottest topics in medicine right now. Is Lyme…

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United States: White House shows lack of concern for tick-borne disease outbreak. Funding withdrawn. Voter base will suffer.

ByCanLyme Team

The Hill,  October 1st, 2019 “Clark said he considered the end of the advisory board a “great loss” to the federal government, pointing to the group’s final white paper on the role of invasive species in tick-borne illnesses as an example of their important work. “This was specifically requested by the Defense Department because there…

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Canadian Cycling Magazine: Ticks and Lyme disease: What you need to know

ByCanLyme Team

With tick-borne illnesses on the rise in many parts of Canada, prevention is key for cyclists riding through the forest by Anne Francis  September 29, 2019 If you’ve ever had, or known someone who’s had Lyme disease, you know it’s no picnic–symptoms may resemble the flu (nausea, fever, chills, swollen glands, or a rash), and can…

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LETTER: Ethics of science must factor in fight against Lyme disease

ByCanLyme Team

September 20, 2019 To Dr. Ryan’s credit he has expressed interest in seeing Lyme and tick-borne disease prevention introduced in the early grades in the school system. Unfortunately this hasn’t happened, likely due to opposition from Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer of Health who has a long history of downplaying, trivializing the…

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Lyme disease is out of control, officials say

ByCanLyme Team

September 15, 2019 PUTNAM VALLEY – The incidence of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses is frightening since more than 400,000 new cases of Lyme have been reported across the United States with 98,000 cases confirmed in New York State. State Senator Susan Serino (R, Hyde Park) and Putnam Valley Supervisor Sam Oliverio recently hosted…

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Review of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in UK guidelines for Lyme disease

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: NICE in the UK, similar to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is given statutory distinction.  NICE published Lyme disease guidelines using their legislated privilege.  In Canada, the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (AMMI) and PHAC have openly supported the NICE guidelines. PHAC regularly abuses its legislated privilege and AMMI continually…

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Nova Scotia: “U.S. doctors head to Pictou County to challenge Lyme disease status quo”

ByCanLyme Team

The ChronicleHerald September 5th, 2019 by Andrew Rankin Dr. Marty Ross wants Lyme sufferers in Nova Scotia to know that there are better treatment options out there and that’s precisely why the U.S. physician is presenting his case in the province Friday. “My mission in life is to help those people as best I can…

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Parenting When Children Have Lyme Disease: Fear, Frustration, Advocacy

ByCanLyme Team

Emilie M. Gaudet 1 , Odette N. Gould 1,*, Vett Lloyd 2 1 Department of Psychology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB E4L 1C7 Canada 2 Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB E4L 1G7 Canada * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Healthcare 2019, 7(3), 95; doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7030095 Abstract Increasing numbers of Canadians, including children and adolescents, are being infected…

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Illinois expands insurance coverage for those with tick-borne diseases and children requiring EpiPens

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: Yet another U.S. state ignores the baseless dogma of the private group the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), that chronic treatable active infection does not exist after 3 weeks of antibiotics. Chronic treatable active infection does exist, is devastating, and requires long-term antibiotics just as many diseases do.  The Public Health Agency of…

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Global TV News: Why Lyme disease is on the rise, explained

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: Both AIDS and Lyme disease arose as an issue in the late 1970’s with the first case of Lyme reported in Quebec in 1977. As pointed out in this piece, since then there have been over 11,000 clinical trials for AIDS yet only 60 for Lyme disease. Lyme disease research funding in Canada…