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CBC News Montreal: Reported cases of Lyme disease on the rise in Montreal

May 19th, 2016 Arlene Rill knows all about the dangers of Lyme disease. The 65-year-old resident of Hampstead, Que., says she was bitten by an infected tick in Montreal in 2014 and has suffered debilitating arthritis-like symptoms ever since. “One tick can take away your life,” the retired schoolteacher says, and it’s a message she’s now working to spread. Rill…

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Lyme disease: Knowledge and practices of family practitioners in southern Quebec

[CanLyme note:  We invite your review of the below article (free PDF of study can be accessed in the link below). Comments on study design, methodology, the questionnaire, data sourcing, and conclusions drawn, are invited.  Add your review in our comments section.  Also, how do you believe this information will be used by medical bureaucrats…

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Watch video of speeches of politicians and Canada’s Ride For Lyme cyclists at the Ride For Lyme kick-off event

Listen to British Columbia provincial MLA Lana Popham, City Council member Chris Coleman, and cyclists Daniel Corso and Tanner Cookson. Watch video Listen to Lyme disease victim and advocate Gwen Barlee, and provincial MLA Carole James Watch video Listen to Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation director and ex BC provincial MLA David Cubberley, Watch video

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Watch news, Youtube, and view photos of Canada’s Ride For Lyme – The Adelaine Projetct

Watch video of the Ride For Lyme Click Here Watch CHEK news interview with Daniel and Tanner. Click Here May 10th, 2015 Victoria send off party May 11th, 2015 early morning send off Video from Ride for Lyme event in Victoria: Pt 1 – Lana Popham, Daniel and Tanner, Chris Coleman Rideforlyme Victoria BC Pt1…

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Montérégie at epicentre of uptick in Lyme disease in Quebec

KATHERINE WILTON, MONTREAL GAZETTE Published on: May 13, 2015 Hikers heading to the mountains and forests in the Montérégie should take precautions to avoid being bitten by a blacklegged tick that may carry Lyme disease, public health officials say.  Read full article

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Lyme disease growing increasingly common in Quebec

Originating in Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s, the disease has now made its way North. Quebec’s first cases emerged in 2008. Since then, it has continued to spread at an alarming rate. “We are predicting a rate of expansion of seven or eight kilometers per year northward in southern Quebec,” said Virginie Millien, a professor…

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Lyme disease rates in Quebec’s Montérégie spike

If left untreated, tick-borne disease can cause neurological problems, cardiac arrest, chronic fatigue Posted: May 31, 2014 11:37 AM ET Lyme disease is on the rise in parts of southern Quebec, particularly in the Montérégie region where the number of cases has quadrupled since 2012. The Montérégie public health director, Alain Poirier, said 160 cases…

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Lyme disease diagnosis a battle in Quebec, patients say

Some patients going to United States for diagnosis and treatment because of lack of awareness in Quebec CBC News Posted: May 18, 2014 12:23 PM ET| Margaret Glaser says the past 12 years she’s spent living with undiagnosed Lyme disease has been like “living in hell” — not only because of the severity of her…

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Poleward Expansion of the White-Footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) under Climate Change: Implications for the Spread of Lyme Disease

Emilie Roy-Dufresne, Affiliations:   Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada,  Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Travis Logan,  Affiliation:  Ouranos Consortium, Montreal, Canada        Julie A. Simon,  Affiliation:  Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Canada                Gail L. Chmura,  Affiliation:  Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada                Virginie Millien,   Affiliation:  Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Canada   E-mail: virginie [dot] millien [at] mcgill [dot] ca              Published: Nov 18, 2013 DOI:…

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LYME DISEASE IN QUEBEC – A TICKING TIMEBOMB

For The Gazette by Robert J. Galbraith [CanLyme: We have had enough of bureaucrats making decisions to withold information from the public, alleging “panic” will unfold. Nonsense, lives will be saved, healthcare costs will be greatly reduced, families will not be destroyed] Montreal-Quebec’s leading authority in the science of tick biology says that the southern…