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Canadian magazine wins international award for article on Lyme disease.
International journalists have selected a Better Farming magazine story by Mary Baxter, about Lyme Disease, as last year’s best story by BETTER FARMING STAFF Better Farming field editor Mary Baxter is this year’s recipient of a top Continues →-
The Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition From Around the World Reject Newly Proposed IDSA Guidelines
The Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition Comments of the IDSA Proposed Lyme Guidelines Continues → -
Canada: A systematic review on the impact of gestational Lyme disease in humans on the fetus and newborn
[CanLyme Note: We at CanLyme want to thank Sue Faber and Jennifer Kravis for their excellent Continues → -
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 → -
Twins Ice Cream Parlour in lovely Port Rowan, Ontario, for years has been very active in raising awareness and funds for Lyme disease.
On the north shores of Lake Erie sits the idyllic community of Port Rowan, Ontario. It is a Continues →
Recent in: Lyme in Ontario
Canadian MP Len Webber addresses Minister of Health on Lyme disease
Minister of Health Patty Hajdu readily admits there is “still lots to learn” about treatment of Lyme disease but as typical opts to keep sick people sick without options of extended antibiotic treatment that has helped hundreds of thousands of people who had to leave Canada for help. Instead she wants more research, none of which is going to help Continues →
Canadian has brain of 70-year-old after ‘flawed’ test let disease go undiagnosed for years
March 11th, 2018 TORONTO — A young Canadian woman has been left with the brain of a 70-year-old after suffering from Lyme disease for more than seven years without treatment because she says tests failed to give her a proper diagnosis. St. Catharines, Ont., woman Nikki Kent was bitten by a tick in 2013 at the age of 17, but Continues →
Canada loses a great Lyme disease defender, Paul Haefling author of Oh Canada: The “Politicks” of Lyme Disease
Obituary Haefling, Paul M.A. (English), LL.B – Passed away surrounded by his loving wife Catherine of 54 years and family members at the Wellington Terrace Nursing Home in Fergus on Monday, January 13, 2020. Paul Haefling, in his 79th year, was the husband of Catherine (Lipton) Haefling. Predeceased by his parents Jerome and Irene (Sullivan) Haefling and by his sister Continues →
Canada: Serious flaws in a medical system lacking medical and scientific ethic
Presenting at a Lyme disease conference held in Bridgewater, NS, in November 2019, it was said that Nova Scotia lacks proper protocols when dealing with the ignored epidemic of Lyme and tick-borne diseases [TBD’s]. We have the highest incidence in Canada conservatively estimated as 454/ 100,000 across the province to as high as 1,826/100,000 in the western zone. These estimates Continues →
Time for Canada to follow U.S. recognition of mother-to-fetus Lyme disease transmission, says Mount Allison biologist
Andrew Rankin (arankin@herald.ca) February 11, 2020 SACKVILLE, N.B. — The federal U.S. public health agency has set an example for Canada to follow by acknowledging that Lyme disease could be passed from mother to fetus with serious consequences, says a Mount Allison University expert. “The first step is acknowledging that the transmission happens,” said Vett Lloyd, a biologist and founding Continues →
Ontario, Canada: Battle with Lyme disease an education for St. Catharines Grade 3 teacher
t started with her legs vibrating in March 2014. Elementary school teacher Shawna Hughes had dealt with some back pain issues, but this was different. She went to doctors. Specialists. Seven neurologists. No one could figure out what was wrong and her condition got worse. She was shaking all the time and her body was in pain. When she woke Continues →
Canada: Lyme disease the cause behind young man’s heart issue
Nov. 5th, 2019 Jason Baum doesn’t look like the kind of guy who would have a pacemaker. For one thing, he’s just 27-years old. He’s also a competitive weight lifter. But just last month, he had one implanted to help his heart maintain a regular rhythm. Jason’s journey began mid-summer when he started to feel flu-ish and weak. He tested 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 →
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 →
Ontario, Canada: Mom urges daily tick inspections after Lyme ‘nightmare’
[CanLyme Note: As usual, infectious disease doctors are intentionally misleading the public. It is very clear from this reporting that the rash is the most important sign of Lyme disease. It is not, just as facial palsy is not common. This is far too serious a disease for misinformation and it is frightening to see it coming from those who claim Continues →
Ottawa mom warns parents to check their kids for ticks after her toddler is diagnosed with Lyme disease
[CanLyme Note: It is nice to hear that the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) ‘may’ be actually taking this seriously finally. Mothers in Ontario and at many other children’s hospitals across Canada in the very recent past have been accused of having Munchausen by Proxy simply because they fought for their children’s rights after a negative test for Lyme disease Continues →
Tick found south of North Bay tested positive for Lyme disease
The yearly trend indicates that there is an increased presence of blacklegged ticks testing positive in our district. The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit has confirmed a blacklegged tick found in Dunchurch tested positive for the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacteria that can cause Lyme disease. To date in 2019, 14 ticks have been sent for identification, with nine being Continues →
CTV News, London ON: Lyme disease devastation Pt. 2
Listen to researcher John Scott’s warning that physician knowledge needs to improve relative to Lyme disease. Watch news clip