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[ CanLyme note: Western Canadian ticks often come from migratory birds from California and other western states. Borrelia bissettii was found in the province of British Columbia well over a decade ago, yet there is still no human test that properly tests for it and many other Borrelia genotypes known to occur. Patients in Canada are…
Feb 20th, 2015 Alan Fanitzi, Poughkeepsie Journal New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos named Senator Sue Serino,R-Hyde Park, Dutchess County, as the new chair of the Senate Task Force on Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases on Wednesday. The goal of the Task Force is to increase prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme and…
Marianne J Middelveen1, Cheryl Bandoski2, Jennie Burke3, Eva Sapi2, Katherine R Filush2,Yean Wang3, Agustin Franco3, Peter J Mayne1 and Raphael B Stricker14* Abstract (provisional) Background Morgellons disease (MD) is a complex skin disorder characterized by ulcerating lesions that have protruding or embedded filaments. Many clinicians refer to this condition as delusional parasitosis or delusional…
[CanLyme note: Although this video clearly shows a spirochaetal shaped bacteria, it cannot identify what spirochaete it may be. To show that those bacteria are in fact Borrelia (the spirochaetal bacteria shown to cause Lyme borreliosis), proper DNA sequencing would have to occur. From our perspective, if the person is sick and these are showing…
[CanLyme note: This study has limitations as noted therein and does not include cost of taxpayer funded disability income payments to the chronically ill, loss of taxable income from those who are unable to work, loss of productivity in the employment sector, along with other indirect costs to society and the taxpayer. It also does…
A TURRAMURRA researcher is calling on the medical fraternity to advocate for recognition of Lyme disease in Australia, both for treatment and insurance purposes. Mualla McManus’s call follows an appeal from tick bite victim and East Lindfield teen Francesca Wallis who is trying to raise $30,000 for Lyme disease treatment at a German clinic, as the…
[CanLyme note: It says in the article that 70-80% of people who contract Lyme disease will develop a rash. That is untrue. Current research indicates that only a small subset of the Lyme bacteria Borrelia will cause a rash of any kind.] January 27th, 2015, by Doug Collie Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Conservative MLA Bruce Rowe says now…
SIMCOE, Ont. — A Simcoe woman living with Lyme disease is heading to the U.S. for help. Caley Barber will have a friend drive her to Plattsburgh, N.Y., to meet a doctor and hopefully start the long-term course of antibiotics she needs to get better — at her own expense. Barber’s predicament is common for…
By Michael Specter On December 15th, without much ceremony or public comment, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law that has the potential to change the way medicine in New York is practiced. Frequently referred to as the Lyme Doctor Protection Act, the law prohibits the state board of medicine from investigating complaints of substandard care…
*Corresponding author: Jingze Liu jzliu21 [at] heinfo [dot] net Parasites & Vectors 2015, 8:24 doi:10.1186/s13071-014-0628-x Published: 14 January 2015 Ticks, as obligate blood-sucking ectoparasites, attack a broad range of vertebrates and transmit a great diversity of pathogenic microorganisms. They are considered second only to mosquitoes as vectors of human disease, and the most important vector of…
[CanLyme note: There are no human tests for many of the borrelia species of bacteria that cause Lyme disease, yet they have perhaps convinced this poor gentleman he did not have Lyme disease. There is nothing in what they have reported that would rule out Lyme disease… so why is a government agency so willing…
[CanLyme note: This is another indication that the Canadian public wants to know more about why Lyme borreliosis is not being recognized by mainstream medicine when the evidence is clear, this is a global pandemic numbering in the millions of cases of chronic disability in the past decades.] The Eagle’s Top 3 viewed stories online for…
December 31, 2014 Belleville News By Diane Sherman Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, introduced Bill C-442, June 2012, to stimulate debate about prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and research on Lyme disease, a disease caused by insect bites, primarily ticks. December 16 the bill became law: An Act respecting a Federal…
Chiara Davide, 22, has been sick for seven years with no diagnosis. Was a positive Lyme disease test result from the U.S. the answer, or false hope? By: Lauren Pelley Staff Reporter, Published on Sat Dec 27 2014 Chiara Davide is sitting in a wheelchair at her family’s home in North York, frozen in place….
San Francisco, California (PRWEB) December 19, 2014 An expanded study confirms that Lyme disease may be sexually transmitted. The study was published in the open access journal F1000Research (https://f1000research.com/articles/3-309/v1). Lyme disease is a tickborne infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a type of corkscrew-shaped bacteria known as a spirochete (pronounced spiro’keet). The Lyme spirochete resembles the…
