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Future looks brighter for Lyme disease care
ByCanLyme Team May 3, 2015April 21, 2023
May 3rd, 2015 Poughkeepsie Journal The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised their estimates for the number of Lyme disease cases, saying there are 10 times as many. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law protecting doctors who prescribe longer courses of antibiotics to Lyme disease patients. Studies in animals and humans show that Lyme…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Hopkins Physician Says Lyme Disease Patients Create Conspiracy Theories About Their Illnesses
ByCanLyme Team April 29, 2015April 21, 2023
Hopkins physician Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, has told the Allentown Morning Call that Lyme patients invent ideas about what ails them. “When is a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researcher no longer competent to conduct research and treat patients?” asks Cutler, who has been battling Lyme disease for more than nine years. “When he ceases…
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THE JOHNS HOPKINS LYME DISEASE CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER OPENS
ByCanLyme Team April 28, 2015April 21, 2023
The Lyme Disease Research Foundation is pleased to announce the April 2015 opening of The Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center in the Division of Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The Center was established with a major gift from the Lyme Disease Research Foundation and represents the culmination of years of extraordinary…
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Researchers Discover Never-Before-Seen Tickborne Disease
ByCanLyme Team April 27, 2015April 21, 2023
April 27th, 2015 Tickborne diseases are a major public health problem around the world. Ticks carry and transmit a variety of microbes that cause disease. These illnesses, which include Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Tularemia, can cause a variety of symptoms, often serious and sometimes deadly. Now, just in time for spring and…
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Vancouver, BC: Lyme disease sufferers ticked off with Vancouver clinic that was supposed to help them
ByCanLyme Team April 25, 2015April 21, 2023
BY DAN FUMANO, THE PROVINCE APRIL 22, 2015 In 2013, a clinic heralded as the first of its kind in Canada opened in Vancouver with a mandate to diagnose and treat Lyme disease in B.C. It was a moment of great hope and optimism for many chronic Lyme sufferers in B.C. But two years later,…
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Case report: Mother to fetus transmission of Babesia, a tick-borne infection
ByCanLyme Team April 23, 2015April 21, 2023
The Anemic and Thrombocytopenic Febrile Neonate Nickolas D. Surra, MD, John E. Jesus, MD Christiana Care Health Center, Newark, Delaware Published Online: April 18, 2015 Abstract Background Babesiosis is a tick-borne, protozoal disease seen primarily in the northeastern and northern Midwest portions of the United States. It is primarily transmitted through the bite of the…
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Lyme Patient Advocates Denounce Intellectual Conflicts of Interest for Seven IDSA Guidelines Review Panelists
ByCanLyme Team April 21, 2015April 21, 2023
Arlington, VA – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 The Mayday Project–a volunteer organization comprised of those touched by Lyme disease–wants to know the answer to the question: How can certain members of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) review panel, those with entrenched intellectual conflicts of interest, be trusted to revise the guidelines…
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Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Research
Relying on a negative Lyme test can prove deadly. Dr. Dan Cameron
ByCanLyme Team April 21, 2015April 21, 2023
In August of 2013, a 17-year-old boy died suddenly from cardiac arrest. Initially, health officials blamed the Powassan virus for his death. But a recent report in Cardiovascular Pathologist finds that Joseph Elone, from Poughkeepsie, died from Lyme carditis. It was not a rare virus but Lyme disease that claimed the young man’s life. Read…
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Watch excellent video on the life and feeding cycle of ticks
ByCanLyme Team April 20, 2015April 21, 2023
This video is full of good information on how ticks successfully infect people and other animals with diseases. Although they discuss this in the context of Tick Borne Encephalitis (TBE), this also applies to Lyme Disease (a borreliosis caused by many strains of Borrelia).
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Co-infections | International News | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Health officials ramp up tick monitoring for Powassan Virus
ByCanLyme Team April 17, 2015April 21, 2023
CityNews reporter Andrea Piunno with what health officials are doing to protect you and what you should watch out for. Public Health Ontario says they are monitoring ticks for Powsassan Virus… when did they start? What are the results? What methodology are they using to test? What guidelines are doctors to follow to look for…
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IDSA mantra, ‘There is no such thing as chronic Lyme’, linked to most Lyme injuries and deaths: Mayday Project
ByCanLyme Team April 17, 2015April 21, 2023
April 16th, 2015 [IDSA= Infectious Disease Society of America] “Cutler says most injuries and deaths due to Lyme disease are a direct result of the IDSA group think leading to the ill-informed mantra: “There is no such thing as chronic Lyme.” Cutler called on the IDSA to pay strict attention to the IOM Standard #3…
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Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Spirochetes in Wild Birds in Northwestern California: Associations with Ecological Factors, Bird Behavior and Tick Infestation
ByCanLyme Team April 8, 2015April 21, 2023
Published: February 25, 2015 Abstract Although Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) are found in a great diversity of vertebrates, most studies in North America have focused on the role of mammals as spirochete reservoir hosts. We investigated the roles of birds as hosts for subadult Ixodes pacificus ticks and potential reservoirs of the Lyme disease…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada: Lyme disease found in Sudbury-area steeds
ByCanLyme Team April 7, 2015April 21, 2023
By Jim Moodie, The Sudbury Star Tuesday, April 7, 2015 2:49:29 EDT PM Horse owners in the Sudbury area are being told to look out for disease-carrying ticks. Espanola veterinarian P.J. Rocheleau says a trio of horses from the Hanmer/Capreol area have tested positive for Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent in Lyme disease. “Testing was…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Lyme disease: A case report of a 17-year old male with fatal Lyme carditis
ByCanLyme Team March 30, 2015April 21, 2023
March 21, 2015 Abstract Lyme disease is a systemic infection commonly found in the northeastern, mid-Atlantic and north-central regions of the United States. Of the many systemic manifestations of Lyme disease, cardiac involvement is uncommon and rarely causes mortality. We describe a case of a 17-year-old adolescent who died unexpectedly after a 2-week viral-like syndrome….
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Government | International News | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Complex Population Structure of Borrelia burgdorferi in Southeastern and South Central Canada as Revealed by Phylogeographic Analysis
ByCanLyme Team March 30, 2015April 21, 2023
Abstract Lyme disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, is an emerging zoonotic disease in Canada and is vectored by the blacklegged tick,Ixodes scapularis. Here we used Bayesian analyses of sequence types (STs), determined by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), to investigate the phylogeography of B. burgdorferi populations in southern Canada and the United…
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Medical Publications

Future looks brighter for Lyme disease care

Hopkins Physician Says Lyme Disease Patients Create Conspiracy Theories About Their Illnesses

THE JOHNS HOPKINS LYME DISEASE CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER OPENS

Researchers Discover Never-Before-Seen Tickborne Disease

Vancouver, BC: Lyme disease sufferers ticked off with Vancouver clinic that was supposed to help them

Case report: Mother to fetus transmission of Babesia, a tick-borne infection

Lyme Patient Advocates Denounce Intellectual Conflicts of Interest for Seven IDSA Guidelines Review Panelists

Relying on a negative Lyme test can prove deadly. Dr. Dan Cameron

Watch excellent video on the life and feeding cycle of ticks

Health officials ramp up tick monitoring for Powassan Virus

IDSA mantra, ‘There is no such thing as chronic Lyme’, linked to most Lyme injuries and deaths: Mayday Project

Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Spirochetes in Wild Birds in Northwestern California: Associations with Ecological Factors, Bird Behavior and Tick Infestation

Sudbury, Ontario, Canada: Lyme disease found in Sudbury-area steeds

Lyme disease: A case report of a 17-year old male with fatal Lyme carditis

Complex Population Structure of Borrelia burgdorferi in Southeastern and South Central Canada as Revealed by Phylogeographic Analysis

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