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Sarah Phillips’ daughter, Emily, is awake and smiling now. It’s a big difference from a few days ago. “I could barely keep her awake,” said Phillips. “She was falling asleep on me, I had to carry her everywhere, she was so lethargic, I have never seen anybody so tired.” Earlier this month a tick burrowed…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers itself to be one of the nation’s foremost scientific institutions, dedicated to transparency and evidence-driven policies. It is fair, therefore, to ask this question: What happens when the CDC brazenly ignores the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), taking more than five years to fulfill a journalist’s information…
Tsawwassen resident Karen Marchand says she used to pride herself on being a healthy person, but all that changed a few years ago. In late 2008, she began suffering from a range of symptoms – back pain as well as ear and throat infections. “Just all these things started happening,” she says. Then, in January…
Sitting in a dark room at Little House Society in Tsawwassen, Karen Marchand speaks slowly and with great apparent effort, trying desperately to concentrate on articulating each word. She is describing the last four and a half years of her life, one racked with excruciating pain and confusion over how she contracted a rarely talked…
Stephanie Stoneleigh… “Just want you to know I have sent this letter this morning to about 75 contacts in hopes that they will sign the Petition put forward by Randy Hillier, M.P.P” …. Dear Friends, Relatives and Co-Workers in my Health Battle: I need to let you know that I am sending this email…
New Brunswick resident Stephanie Stoneleigh has had enough and wants the News Brunswick health care system to wake up to the fact that Lyme disease is occuring in numbers far above what is being reported. Her published letter to the editor spells out the issues. Read full letter
OUR POLITICIANS CAN STOP THIS NONSENSE IF SO MOTIVATED AND NOT DOING THE DRUG COMPANY’S BIDDING. DEMAND THE VICTIM’S EXPERTS, APPOINTED BY THE VICTIMS, BE THE ULTIMATE APPROVAL BODY OF ANY HEALTH RELATED GUIDELINES FOR ANY CONDITION, ILLNESS, OR DISEASE. ALL EVIDENCE BASED, PEER REVIEWED SCIENCE MUST BE LOOKED AT, NOT ONLY THAT WHICH IS DESIGNED…
This is a much needed investigation and is gaining rapid support throughout the USA… Canada SHOULD WE BE NEXT? …. ie; investigating our quasi-governmental policy setters; PCPHN (Pan-Canadian Public Health Network), CPHLN (Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network – who report to the PCPHN – who report to the Conference of federal/provincial/territorial Deputy Ministers of Health), and investigate the AMMI (Association of Medical Microbiologists…
… “Newby believes the delays were related to the documents’ content, which, she said, “reveal a disturbing picture of a quasi-governmental group … setting Lyme disease policy and a national research agenda without public oversight or transparency.” Read full article
Calgary’s Langevin Bridge will turn green Saturday night to raise awareness for Lyme disease. The first World Lyme Disease Day was held on May 11th and landmarks across Canada have been joining in on the awareness efforts by turning on green lights. The CN Tower went green last Saturday and Niagara Falls will go green…
In Canada, if a dog contacts Lyme disease, it has a far better chance of receiving timely diagnosis and treatment, whereas humans have to scramble to the U.S, says Marlene Spies, a Brampton Lyme disease patient. Canadians travel to the south of the border as “protocol tests” in Canada are not sensitive enough. Even though…
A small bug is causing big problems for hundreds of Canadians. The deer tick can carry bacteria that cause Lyme disease. If it’s caught early, Lyme disease is very treatable. But that’s the problem; it sometimes goes undiagnosed and Canadians who are very sick with this disease say they are being told it is all…
Kathryn Maroun, host of popular TV show about fishing, What A Catch, discusses Lyme disease with David Doggett of Maritime Ourdoorsman. She contracted Lyme disease while in British Columbia, Canada. Listen here to Kathryn Maroun Also, as a follow-up and in response to the above segment, now listen to Vett Lyoyd, a biologist at Mount…
Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation president Jim Wilson presents to the Penticton Museum in the City of Penticton, BC. “Because public speaking is not something I do regularly, here are some mis-speaks on my part in this presentation – – I mentioned the borrelia bacteria can survive in the blood for 48 months… no, 48 days. –…
Goldhawk Fights Back: Jim Wilson, President of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation, speaks about the Ontario Health Ministry testing for Lyme Disease, already ruled to be of poor quality by Health Canada. Listen to the show
