Featured in: Lyme in Nova Scotia
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The Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition From Around the World Reject Newly Proposed IDSA Guidelines
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Response by Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer of Health relative to Lyme disease comes under serious scrutiny as to it’s relevance to ‘true’ science.
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Canada: A systematic review on the impact of gestational Lyme disease in humans on the fetus and newborn
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Lyme disease vastly under-detected in Canada, according to new study
Mount A biologist co-authors research that suggests only 3-4% of Lyme cases are officially Continues →
Recent in: Lyme in Nova Scotia
CBC News: Yarmouth horse owner spreads word about little-known tick-borne disease
Nov. 5th, 2019 A Yarmouth, N.S., horse owner wants others to know about anaplasma, a tick-borne disease that her horse, Sloane, contracted before Halloween. “If you see swollen legs on your horse, it means something, do something,” said Sarah LeBlanc, Sloane’s owner. Anaplasma causes serious fevers, loss of appetite and swollen and painful limbs. If a fever is left untreated, it can lead to Continues →
LETTER: Ethics of science must factor in fight against Lyme disease
September 20, 2019 To Dr. Ryan’s credit he has expressed interest in seeing Lyme and tick-borne disease prevention introduced in the early grades in the school system. Unfortunately this hasn’t happened, likely due to opposition from Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer of Health who has a long history of downplaying, trivializing the disease and recently gaining international Continues →
CBC Radio: Why patients are caught in the battle over treating chronic Lyme disease
Medical experts and guidelines divided over chronic or post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome CBC Radio · Posted: Sep 20, 2019 4:45 PM ET “For much of her life, Jane Bailey was in peak physical condition. But that all changed in the summer of 2013, when a tick made a temporary home inside her ear canal. “It was in there for three-and-a-half days,” she Continues →
Nova Scotia: “U.S. doctors head to Pictou County to challenge Lyme disease status quo”
The ChronicleHerald September 5th, 2019 by Andrew Rankin Dr. Marty Ross wants Lyme sufferers in Nova Scotia to know that there are better treatment options out there and that’s precisely why the U.S. physician is presenting his case in the province Friday. “My mission in life is to help those people as best I can to get well,” said the Continues →
Parenting When Children Have Lyme Disease: Fear, Frustration, Advocacy
Emilie M. Gaudet 1 , Odette N. Gould 1,*, Vett Lloyd 2 1 Department of Psychology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB E4L 1C7 Canada 2 Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB E4L 1G7 Canada * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Healthcare 2019, 7(3), 95; doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7030095 Abstract Increasing numbers of Canadians, including children and adolescents, are being infected with Borrelia burgdorferi and contracting Lyme disease. Continues →
Global TV News: Why Lyme disease is on the rise, explained
[CanLyme Note: Both AIDS and Lyme disease arose as an issue in the late 1970’s with the first case of Lyme reported in Quebec in 1977. As pointed out in this piece, since then there have been over 11,000 clinical trials for AIDS yet only 60 for Lyme disease. Lyme disease research funding in Canada is abysmal and is directed Continues →
Listen to CanLyme president Jim Wilson on CBC radio – Radio Canada International
August 5th, 2019 [CanLyme Note: This is just one of several interviews given by Jim Wilson the morning of August 5th. Live separate interviews were done for CBC radio Toronto, Quebec City, Winnipeg, Regina, Yellowknife, Whitehorse, Vancouver, and Montreal, each at different time slots.] “We’re in the middle of a Canadian summer, and people are enjoying the best of what Canada’s Continues →
Join Us in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia for Lyme presentation
Jennifer MacLean and Amy Haynes-Desjardins have arranged for a Lyme and other tick-borne disease presentation to be held in New Glasgow, NS on Friday evening, September 6th, 2019 at the Pictou Wellness Centre 2-2756 Westville Rd, New Glasgow, NS – 4:30 to 6:00 PM for Health Care Professionals 7:00 to 9:00 PM for the public Presenters will include; Vett Lloyd, Continues →
How many cases of Lyme disease are we missing?
June 27th, 2019 DONNA LUGAR I participated in a “Tick Talk” in Bedford with Lisa Ali Learning of AtlanTick on June 25. One takeaway from that meeting, for me anyway, is that we are not doing enough to ensure Nova Scotians are adequately aware of the risks associated with tick bites. One family, new to the country, had never even Continues →
Nova Scotia woman behind ‘AtlanTick’ tick repellent shares her children’s struggle with Lyme disease
June 11, 2019 When it comes to her kids, Mahone Bay’s Lisa Ali-Learning isn’t taking any chances. So when her sons, Darian and Lucas, started to complain about joint pains two years ago, she immediately took them to get tested for Lyme disease. They tested negative. Months passed and with their health declining, the boys remained undiagnosed as neither developed Continues →
Long time Lyme disease patient advocate warns Nova Scotians about ticks and medical practices
[CanLyme Note: Here we are in 2019 and doctors are still telling patients not to worry about a tick attachment. Ticks are nature’s dirty little needle and they carry much more than just Lyme disease. Some of these other diseases can be transmitted shortly after attachment. Watching and waiting only allows disease to spread making treatment much more difficult, and sometimes Continues →
There’s no evidence quick dose of antibiotics will stave off Lyme
[CanLyme Note: Canadians have got to beware of information produced by any members of the Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network (CLyDRN) as their information does not serve you the public, but instead serves the for-profit medical industry and their many components while patients struggle with a lifetime of disability and multiple daily drugs not intended to fix the disease itself. They Continues →
Lyme disease treatment needs better approach, Conservatives say
Tim Houston and the Progressive Conservatives are urging the province to take a new approach to combating the growing Lyme disease endemic in Nova Scotia. “The province’s focus on prevention is skirting the real issue that people will continue to be bitten by ticks in this province and people are continuing to contract Lyme disease,” said the Progressive Conservative leader. Continues →
Lyme disease study raises possibility of mother-to-baby transmission
Andrew Rankin (arankin@herald.ca) May 15th, 2019 A scientist who co-authored a recent Public Health Agency of Canada study on the impact of Lyme disease during pregnancy says the illness can have fatal consequences for a developing fetus if the mother goes untreated. “Miscarriage, newborn death, and newborns with respiratory problems or jaundice have been found to occur,” said American epidemiologist Alison Continues →
Latest research shows Canada’s decision to fund only one large national Lyme research conglomerate goes against creation of new ideas.
[CanLyme Note: Even worse is that the 4 million tax payer dollars given to the conglomerate, Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network (CLyDRN), is now controlled by members of the anti-science/ethics private group the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease of Canada (AMMI) which is the puppet arm of the highly controversial Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA). Most of the Continues →