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[CanLyme note: A comment that was in the print version of the National Post newspaper has been edited out of the online version, it followed this quote…. “The majority of children … never knew they were bitten by a tick. Arthritis was the very first presenting symptom of their Lyme disease,” said Dr. Elizabeth Stringer, a…
A Kamloops couple whose daughters contracted Lyme disease says the BC Government and the medical community continue to downplay the relevance of the disease in the province. Niki and John Bone say they are shocked to learn other families struggle with finding the proper diagnosis.We recently featured the Hrychiw family whose two boys were forced…
[How many more just are left to die in Canada? Not a great tourism advertisement for our country and it’s alleged great medical system] NEW DELHI: Doctors at a private hospital here have given a new lease of life to a man declared “near brain dead” by a hospital in Canada. Asok Debnath, an IT professional…
Lyme disease can masquerade as MS, ALS, even dementia and its numbers are growing tenfold. So why is Canada lagging behind in treating and diagnosing it? by Anne Kingston [March 2014] For decades, Gabriel Magnotta, the well-known Ontario wine-industry firebrand, went hunting with a group of friends. These expeditions took them into the wilds of…
We were deeply saddened with the sudden loss of Manitoban Elizabeth Wood this past week. Liz’s personal battle with Lyme, despite being a difficult journey of education and endurance, was often shadowed by her advocacy efforts for others. Her ongoing struggle and efforts to further recognition and treatment for Lyme sufferers in Manitoba, particularly those…
Leeds-Grenville MPP Steve Clark has called on the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to improve the way Ontarians who suspect they have Lyme disease are diagnosed and treated. In a Member’s Statement on Thursday, March 5, Clark said the health-care system is failing Ontarians with the disease, including many in Leeds-Grenville – which has…
March 6th, 2014, Fernie, BC, Canada Every spring, I am one of the many that flock to the South Country to bike as I await the annual snowpack melt. I have been warned of the ticks in the area often, but have never been too worried about them. I have a helmet on my head……
By Doug Hartline, Health Director on March 5, 2014 When you see the statistic that Redding had only 10 Lyme disease cases in 2012, you might ask, How can that be? To help put the yearly Redding case numbers in perspective, recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that there are approximately…
NEW WATERFORD — A New Waterford woman who believes her son has Lyme disease is overwhelmed by the support she’s received since going public. “It’s unbelievable — people stopping by with donations and asking about Noah, the phone calls, the messages — the amount of support is someting I never expected,” said Kayla Lambert. “It…
March 4th, 2014, On March 3rd, 2014 in Canada’s House of Commons, Elizabeth May brought her private member’s Bill C-442, the National Lyme Disease Strategy Act, to the floor for second reading. It has support across all parties. The one point that CanLyme has received many emails and phone calls about in the past 24…
Joanne Schnurr, CTV Ottawa Published Monday, March 3, 2014 5:10PM EST Last Updated Monday, March 3, 2014 6:42PM EST A tiny bug is taking center stage at the House of Commons in Ottawa. Lyme disease is a debilitating illness caused by a deer tick. Now, the Green Party’s Elizabeth May is urging…
Volume 20, Number 3—March 2014 Emerging Infectious Disease Bartonella henselae and B. koehlerae DNA in Birds To the Editor: Bartonellosis, a globally emerging vector-borne zoonotic bacterial disease, is caused by hemotropic, gram-negative, aerobic, facultative intracellular Bartonella spp. (1). Of the 30 Bartonella species/subspecies, 17 have been associated with human infections (2,3). Each species has…
Green leader pushes bill to deal with Lyme disease Nova Scotia, Feb 26th, 2014, New Glasgow News, Adam MacInnis On Monday Bill C-442, which first received first reading in June 2012, will finally appear for second reading in Parliament. If it passes, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May believes it could improve how Lyme disease is…
By Elizabeth May, Feb. 25th, 2014 I was saddened that HuffPost blogger Michael Kruse has misrepresented Bill C-442, my private members bill to develop a national approach to the growing threat of Lyme Disease. Up until his uninformed blog, it had been received as what it is — a non-partisan, evidence-based effort to help thousands of Canadians. …
