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Infectious Disease Society of America not ethical, or science based… yet Canada openly endorses them while allowing no victim’s expert input.
ByCanLyme Team September 27, 2012April 21, 2023
We all have been duped. Infectious Disease [IDSA] Treatment Guidelines Weakened By Paucity of Scientific Evidence Daniel M. Keller, PhD From: Medscape Today November 13, 2009 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)– Two separate analyses presented here at the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) 47th Annual Meeting revealed that most of the society’s treatment guidelines are based on expert…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Concerns Regarding the Infectious Diseases Society of America Lyme Disease Clinical Practice Guidelines
ByCanLyme Team September 24, 2012April 11, 2024
Reprints or correspondence: Mr. Jim Wilson, Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation, 2495 Reece Rd., Westbank, BC V4T 1N1, Canada. TO THE EDITOR – The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation has several concerns with the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Lyme disease clinical practice guidelines [1]. I shall elaborate. Throughout the guidelines, the erythema migrans rash is referred…
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International News | Lyme Controversy
Attorney General of Connecticut issues press release about finding of his investigation into the Infectious Disease Society of America.
ByCanLyme Team September 24, 2012April 21, 2023
You can read the 2008 press release of Richard Blumenthal in which he outlines the deplorable state of the Infectious Disease Society of America Lyme guidelines. blumenthal_lyme_press_release_2008
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International News | Lyme Controversy | News from CanLyme
NSW Health moves in the right direction on Lyme disease [Australia]
ByCanLyme Team September 22, 2012April 21, 2023
IN a huge win for Lyme disease sufferers, NSW Health has agreed to encourage doctors to keep an “open mind” about the possibility of locally-acquired Lyme disease. The department will also request a review of Lyme disease testing and seek advice on improved surveillance of the disease. The move comes after 150 Lyme disease sufferers…
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Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | News from CanLyme
Sounding the alarm on Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme Team September 21, 2012April 21, 2023
Two decades ago, Wendy Aitken was told by her doctor that she suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, which causes pain and tenderness in one’s joints and body parts. Since husband Larry was in the military, the couple and their two children grew accustomed to moving from posting to posting, town to town, every…
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Medical Publications | Research
Highlights on molecular identification of closely related species.
ByCanLyme Team September 19, 2012April 21, 2023
Authors: Almeida LA, Araujo R Citation: Infect. Genet. Evol. 2012(Sep) Location: IPATIMUP, Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto;Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal; ICBAS, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira n.° 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: almeida [dot] ligia [dot] mca…
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Virus Disproved as Cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
ByCanLyme Team September 18, 2012April 21, 2023
The saga of the retrovirus XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome appears to have ended, now that researchers in a federally funded study said they found no relationship between the retrovirus and the illness. The controversy dates back to 2009, when a paper in the journal Science found a possible connection between chronic fatigue syndrome and…
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Research
New Tick-Borne Disease Found
ByCanLyme Team September 18, 2012April 21, 2023
By Labmedica International staff writers Posted on 17 Sep 2012 A new Phlebovirus, dubbed the “Heartland virus,” is being spread to people by ticks common in the Southeastern part of the USA. The only tickborne Phlebovirus known to cause human disease is severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV), which was recently identified in central and…
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Medical Publications | Research
Spirochete antigens persist near cartilage after murine Lyme borreliosis therapy.
ByCanLyme Team September 14, 2012April 21, 2023
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22728928 J Clin Invest. 2012 Jul 2;122(7):2652-60. doi: 10.1172/JCI58813. Epub 2012 Jun 25. Bockenstedt LK, Gonzalez DG, Haberman AM, Belperron AA. Source Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. Abstract An enigmatic feature of Lyme disease is the slow resolution of musculoskeletal symptoms that can continue after treatment, with…
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Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Research
German expert organization of researchers, physicians, and professors publish objections to Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) guidelines
ByCanLyme Team September 13, 2012April 21, 2023
The German organization Deutsche Borreliose Gesellschaft submitted their evidence based objections to the IDSA much maligned Lyme disease guidelines. The Deutsche Borreliose Gesellschaft (German Society of Lyme-Borreliosis) raises objections to the IDSA Lyme Guidelines published in 2006. The fundamental basis for our objections is that the implementation of the IDSA guidelines extends beyond the United…
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International News | Lyme Controversy
Lyme disease denial by those we pay to look after us is international for those countries closely associated with the United States Center for Disease Control.
ByCanLyme Team September 9, 2012April 21, 2023
Have we all not heard this government denial before in North America, Great Britain and some Western European countries while other countries simply deal with it? What’s up we ask? Now Australia too? Lyme disease sufferers rally for recognition TIM BARLASS 09 Sep, 2012 03:00 AM THERE is no conclusive evidence Lyme disease caused by…
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For Physicians | Miscellaneous | News from CanLyme
Lyme disease may lurk in your own backyard
ByCanLyme Team September 7, 2012April 21, 2023
Bite from deer tick a health nightmare, By: [Dr.] W. Gifford-Jones / The Doctor Game Do you believe you must be in an infected area to get Lyme disease? If you do, think again. A 10-year study reports you can catch this malady in your own backyard. And since spring and fall are prime times…
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Featured | Medical Publications | Poor Research | Research
Lyme retreatment guidance may be flawed
ByCanLyme Team September 7, 2012April 21, 2023
Deer ticks, Lyme disease, and medical guidance Accepted medical practice discourages antibiotic retreatment in cases where Lyme disease symptoms persist. A new review of studies behind current medical advice says those studies prove nothing. Photo credit: Centers for Disease Control A new statistical review calls into question studies that have been taken as proof that antibiotic retreatment…
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Featured | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Alzheimer’s disease – a neurospirochetosis. Analysis of the evidence following Koch’s and Hill’s criteria.
ByCanLyme Team September 7, 2012April 21, 2023
“Borrelia burgdorferi was detected in the brain in 25.3% of AD cases analyzed and was 13 times more frequent in AD compared to controls. Periodontal pathogen Treponemas (T. pectinovorum, T. amylovorum, T. lecithinolyticum, T. maltophilum, T. medium, T. socranskii) and Borrelia burgdorferi were detected using species specific PCR and antibodies. Importantly, co-infection with several spirochetes…
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News from CanLyme | Research
N.S. tick numbers could be rising, says N.B. scientist
ByCanLyme Team September 7, 2012April 21, 2023
Though numbers of ticks carrying Lyme disease in Nova Scotia haven’t been confirmed yet for 2012, one New Brunswick scientist warns that it could be on the rise. Ticks were first spotted at Admiral’s Cove Park in Bedford in 2006. It’s one of five areas in the province where Lyme disease and the ticks that…
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News and updates

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Announcing the second annual Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference

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Elliot Jacobson: Downstream Secondary Illness in Lyme Disease

Infectious Disease Society of America not ethical, or science based… yet Canada openly endorses them while allowing no victim’s expert input.

Concerns Regarding the Infectious Diseases Society of America Lyme Disease Clinical Practice Guidelines

Attorney General of Connecticut issues press release about finding of his investigation into the Infectious Disease Society of America.

NSW Health moves in the right direction on Lyme disease [Australia]

Sounding the alarm on Lyme Disease

Highlights on molecular identification of closely related species.

Virus Disproved as Cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

New Tick-Borne Disease Found

Spirochete antigens persist near cartilage after murine Lyme borreliosis therapy.

German expert organization of researchers, physicians, and professors publish objections to Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) guidelines

Lyme disease denial by those we pay to look after us is international for those countries closely associated with the United States Center for Disease Control.

Lyme disease may lurk in your own backyard

Lyme retreatment guidance may be flawed

Alzheimer’s disease – a neurospirochetosis. Analysis of the evidence following Koch’s and Hill’s criteria.

N.S. tick numbers could be rising, says N.B. scientist

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