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This is a copy of a letter I was asked by Marie Hughes to write on her behalf. It was sent to every sitting member of the Manitoba legislature. I have Marie’s permission to publish it here. Manitoba Health July 22, 2013 Insured Benefits Branch 975 Henderson HWY Winnipeg, MB R2K 4L7 Att: xxxxxxxx…
“It’s official. A March 2012 study confirmed that the tick that spreads lyme disease has been infiltrating Canada for the past 20 years. Despite this many Canadians still tell tales of years of misdiagnosis and mistreatment as doctors tell them that it just isn’t possible to contract lyme disease in this country.” Watch prevues with…
ATLANTA August 19, 2013 (AP) By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer Lyme disease is about 10 times more common than previously reported, health officials said Monday. As many as 300,000 Americans are actually diagnosed with Lyme disease each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced. Usually, only 20,000 to 30,000 illnesses are…
To date in my “Ticks” series, we have learned from leading global experts that tick-borne illnesses (including Lyme disease) are possibly the most complicated and substantial global medical research challenges that exist today and that they threaten to dominate global health care tomorrow. Solutions are tough to find since the bacteria are difficult to diagnose…
Lyme borreliosis, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Bartonella, tularemia, and more recently, Borrelia miyamotoi (a distant relative of Lyme borreliosis) are recognized tick-borne infectious diseases in the United States, among which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claims Lyme disease is the most common and fastest growing illness. The CDC has…
[CanLyme note: notice that most USA National Institute of Health funding only goes to find a way of monetizing Lyme disease so that companies can profit off of the sick. Virtually no research is funded to identify the prevalence in the current population of the chronically ill, who have been given everything but a Lyme…
[CanLyme note: the oldest tactic used in Lyme disease misinformation proliferation is; from country to country each of the country’s medical “leadership” state that all cases have occurred elsewhere, never in their country. That is nonsense, and they will go to great lengths to make these unfounded, unproven statements because they ‘can and will’ only positively confirm those cases that have…
Editor’s note: Pamela Weintraub is the author of “Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic” (St. Martin’s Press), winner of the 2009 American Medical Writers Association book award, and executive editor of Discover magazine. Follow her on Twitter: @pam3001 (CNN) — Our nightmare began in 1993 after we moved from the city to a house down…
VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Jul. 07 2013, 10:00 PM EDT As a child, Gwen Barlee learned the value of digging deeper, but it was not until she grew up and began to investigate government that her perseverance really paid off. Ms. Barlee, policy director of the Wilderness Committee, has carved out…
Patients have to go to United States just to get a proper diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. Too few voices are allowed to direct health care policy while excluding the victims and their experts. Watch the TV interview
Two Hamilton-area women are among the growing number of Canadians with Lyme disease paying tens of thousands of dollars to get antibiotics in the United States because of a rift in the medical community over how to diagnose and treat the infection. “It’s a very controversial topic,” said Dr. Michael Gardam, director of infection prevention…
Ottawa: The Hill Times CanLyme: This is a very important article. You can sign up for a one day free trial to read the full text, it is worth the small amount of effort and is an astonishing read. Read full article here. Cut and paste the text and send it far and wide to…
The following is the text of Dr. Liegner’s remarks at the World Wide Lyme Rally & Protest Friday, May 10, 2013 Union Square, New York City . “Chronic Lyme disease does not exist”. There are at least four possibilities to explain why a person might hold this view: They can be ‘dumb as bags of…
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…
