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[CanLyme note: From freedom of information documents it is clear that the clinic came about as a result of the now famous Schmidt report on Lyme Disease. The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation sat on the patient’s advisory panel for over 2 years during the development of the clinic but we withdrew when it was clear…
By Heather Yourex Health Reporter May 19th, 2014 CALGARY– Alberta Health officials are once again warning people to be on the lookout for ticks. Last year, the province collected and analyzed 960 ticks, and found burgdorferi bacteria. The bacteria most commonly linked to Lyme disease is present in about 20 per cent of black-legged ticks….
Some patients going to United States for diagnosis and treatment because of lack of awareness in Quebec CBC News Posted: May 18, 2014 12:23 PM ET| Margaret Glaser says the past 12 years she’s spent living with undiagnosed Lyme disease has been like “living in hell” – not only because of the severity of her…
May 9th, 2014 by Amy Smart, Times Colonist, Victoria, BC The first alarm bell went off for Dr. Ted Cormode when his daughter called from her car saying she was frightened. The Langford woman had numbness in her neck, going up the side of her face, Cormode said. His daughter, 43, has since been diagnosed…
BRAMPTON– Hers was a lone voice– that often turned hoarse– as she called upon the government and health practitioners to sit up and take notice of the debilitating effects of Lyme disease. Brampton resident Marlene Spies did not give up even when it seemed no was listening, but in the last four years, her advocacy…
By Lynn Desjardins | english [at] rcinet [dot] caSunday 4 May, 2014 As Canada gets warmer more disease-carrying ticks are spreading Lyme disease and advocates say not enough is being done to help those who are stricken. People going undiagnosed It’s not clear how many Canadians have caught Lyme disease because current testing detects only…
Paul Weyer hasn’t kissed his wife since November 2012. It’s not that Paul doesn’t want to kiss his wife, Tara, it’s simply that he doesn’t want to spread Babesia and the other tick-borne diseases he’s been fighting for the past two years. Weyer was born and grew up in Barrie with his five siblings in…
by Sarah Massah – Peace Arch News posted Apr 28, 2014 at 12:00 PM It was a full house at a South Surrey Lyme disease forum last week. The April 24 event at Semiahmoo House Society was hosted by local Discount Tire owner Louise Roderick – who had spoken to Peace Arch News last summer about…
Lyme disease might be the real culprit By: Melissa Martin, Winnipeg Free Press, from April 15th, 2010 Fact: Manitoba has one of the highest rates of multiple sclerosis in the country. Or do we just think we do? In a recent thesis, Winnipeg researcher Kathleen Crang found that some Manitobans diagnosed with MS and other chronic…
CTV’s medical specialist Avis Favaro reports on the painful side effects of undiagnosed Lyme disease in Canada and the link to child arthritis. Dr. Robbin Lindsay from the National Microbiology Laboratory speaks. Prompt and thorough tick checks are required. Watch CTV News
[CanLyme Note: The $300,000 noted in the article were transferred by CanLyme to the G. Magnotta Foundation for Vector-Borne Diseases in Toronto, not directly to the Humber River Hospital as stated in the article. These monies were raised by the Magnotta family for the purpose of establishing a research facility. The research program is being…
NEW WATERFORD – Nova Scotia Health minister Leo Glavine said after hearing families are being forced to leave the province to get treated for Lyme disease, he’s willing to step in immediately to do something about it. “I can confirm the Department of Heath – and currently as Minister of Health – I’m committed to…
By Raechal Leone Shewfelt | Yahoo Celebrity – Fri, Apr 18, 2014 21:52 BST Debbie Gibson isn’t just a pop star. For the past year, she’s also been a patient. Gibson, who is best known for her ’80s songs such as “Only in My Dreams” and “Shake Your Love,” revealed on her blog Wednesday that…
Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation president, Jim Wilson, was invited to Cawston, BC, to present an awareness and information session to resident of Cawston, BC, and surrounding area, at their community hall. For our part at CanLyme even small communities such as Cawston need to have better information given to them considering that many in the area are…
April 15th, 2014 Last week radio host John Oakley had a physician on who dismissed Lyme Disease as being a big deal, and that US labs that are diagnosing Canadians with Lyme simply for profit. For a physician to make such a statement without evidence gives some insight into how baseless rumour and inuendo seems to…
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