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Doctors discover terrifying new tick-borne virus
ByCanLyme Team September 4, 2012April 21, 2023
TAGS:Health, SciTech, USA, Agriculture Scientists say they’re excited over a discovery that they stumbled on thanks to two Missouri farmers. The revelation they are celebrating in isn’t an end to dry spells or an all-new irrigation method, though. It’s a mysterious, debilitating disease! Researchers have diagnosed two farmers from separate towns in the American Midwest…
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Farm Use of Antibiotics Defies Scrutiny
ByCanLyme Team September 4, 2012April 21, 2023
September 3, 2012 By SABRINA TAVERNISE The numbers released quietly by the federal government this year were alarming. A ferocious germ resistant to many types of antibiotics had increased tenfold on chicken breasts, the most commonly eaten meat on the nation’s dinner tables. But instead of a learning from a broad national inquiry into a…
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International News | Medical Publications | Research
Emerging incidence of Lyme borreliosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, and granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Australia
ByCanLyme Team September 4, 2012April 21, 2023
Int J Gen Med. 2011; 4: 845–852. Published online 2011 December 16. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S27336 Abstract Background Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease (LD), and Babesia, Bartonella, and Ehrlichia species (spp.) are recognized tick-borne pathogens in humans worldwide. Using serology and molecular testing, the incidence of these pathogens was investigated in symptomatic patients…
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Ticks carrying Lyme disease on the rise in N.B.
ByCanLyme Team September 4, 2012April 21, 2023
A rise in the number of ticks carrying Lyme disease in southeastern New Brunswick has biologists looking for samples. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection often transmitted by an infected tick and causing muscle pain, heart palpitations and nerve damage. Dr. Vett Lloyd says the provincial norm is for 10 to 15 per cent of…
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Emerging Infectious Determinants of Chronic Diseases
ByCanLyme Team September 3, 2012April 21, 2023
Evidence now confirms that noncommunicable chronic diseases can stem from infectious agents. Furthermore, at least 13 of 39 recently described infectious agents induce chronic syndromes. Identifying the relationships can affect health across populations, creating opportunities to reduce the impact of chronic disease by preventing or treating infection. As the concept is progressively accepted, advances in…
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Antibiotic retreatment of Lyme disease in patients with persistent symptoms: A biostatistical review of randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trials.
ByCanLyme Team September 3, 2012April 21, 2023
Delong AK, Blossom B, Maloney EL, Phillips SE. Source Center for Statistical Sciences, Department of Biostatistics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. Abstract INTRODUCTION: Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) is caused by the tick-borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Long-term persistent illness following antibiotic treatment is not uncommon, particularly when treatment is delayed. Current treatment guidelines for persistent disease…
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Winnipeg Free Press: Lyme disease may lurk in your own backyard
ByCanLyme Team August 31, 2012April 21, 2023
Bite from deer tick a health nightmare By: 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 for…
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Miscellaneous
Research such as this from Switzerland must be done region by region in North America
ByCanLyme Team August 31, 2012April 21, 2023
Globally, 34.2% of ticks were infected with at least one pathogen. The diversity of tick-borne pathogens detected in I. ricinus in this study and the frequency of co-infections underline the need to take them seriously into consideration when evaluating the risks of infection following a tick bite. Read more
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Eva Sapi, Ph.D discusses her extensive Lyme disease research
ByCanLyme Team August 21, 2012April 21, 2023
This video is a 10 minute clip, part of a 70 minute interview with Dr. Sapi from the University of New Haven. She is credited with being the first researcher to demonstrate that Lyme spirochetes can actually create their own complex biofilm community to survive indefinitely within their hosts; both human and animal. [Eva is…
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Canadian magazine wins international award for article on Lyme disease.
ByCanLyme Team August 19, 2012April 21, 2023
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 international agricultural journalism award. Earlier this week, Baxter’s article, “Lyme disease: the painful and hard-to-diagnose condition,” which ran…
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Miscellaneous
GlaxoSmithKline Sued Over Lyme Disease Vaccine
ByCanLyme Team August 17, 2012April 21, 2023
16 Aug, 2012 17:35 CET GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been hit with a dangerous drug lawsuit that alleges its Lyme disease vaccine LYMERix caused patients to develop arthritis. The dangerous drug lawsuit claims that plaintiffs who were vaccinated with the medication in the 1990s were later diagnosed with post-Lyme disease treatment syndrome or treatment resistant Lyme…
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Listen to Goldhawk Fights Back radio show podcast from Aug. 17th/12 show
ByCanLyme Team August 17, 2012April 21, 2023
Goldhawk Fights Back: Jim Wilson, President of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation, confirms there is no vaccine anywhere in the world that can protect humans from contracting Lyme Disease, through the bite of infectious tics. Listen here
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REASONS WHY A SERONEGATIVE TEST RESULT MIGHT OCCUR
ByCanLyme Team August 17, 2012April 21, 2023
Recent infection before immune response Only strain B31 of Borrelia burgdorferi as basis of test, many strains/species missed Antibodies are in immune complexes Spirochete encapsulated by host tissue (i.e.: lymphocytic cell walls) Spirochete is deep in host tissue Blebs in body fluid, no whole organisms needed for PCR No spirochetes in body fluid on day…
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Chronic Lyme Patients Get Political Victory: New Book by Top Infectious Disease Doctor Supports Long Term Antibiotic Treatment
ByCanLyme Team August 16, 2012April 21, 2023
Chronic Lyme Patients Get Political Victory: New Book by Top Infectious Disease Doctor Supports Long Term Antibiotic Treatment “Chronic Lyme disease does exist,” says Burton A. Waisbren Sr. MD, FACP, FIDSA, in his new book, “Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease: Fifty-One Case Reports and Essays in Their Regard.” The book, released in January, 2012, adds…
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Single or double dose prophylactic treatment for Lyme borreliosis has unacceptable failure rate
ByCanLyme Team August 16, 2012April 21, 2023
Protective value of prophylactic antibiotic treatment of tick bite for Lyme disease prevention: An animal model [one or two pills…who are you going to risk it on?] Joseph Piesman, Andrias Hojgaard, Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3150 Rampart Road, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA Received 29…
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Living with persistent illness and uncertainty: Patient narratives on Lyme disease in Nova Scotia, Canada

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Announcing the second annual Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference

Feeling sick after eating that steak dinner? You could have a rare but potentially severe tick-borne allergy

Elliot Jacobson: Downstream Secondary Illness in Lyme Disease

Doctors discover terrifying new tick-borne virus

Farm Use of Antibiotics Defies Scrutiny

Emerging incidence of Lyme borreliosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, and granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Australia

Ticks carrying Lyme disease on the rise in N.B.

Emerging Infectious Determinants of Chronic Diseases

Antibiotic retreatment of Lyme disease in patients with persistent symptoms: A biostatistical review of randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trials.

Winnipeg Free Press: Lyme disease may lurk in your own backyard

Research such as this from Switzerland must be done region by region in North America

Eva Sapi, Ph.D discusses her extensive Lyme disease research

Canadian magazine wins international award for article on Lyme disease.

GlaxoSmithKline Sued Over Lyme Disease Vaccine

Listen to Goldhawk Fights Back radio show podcast from Aug. 17th/12 show

REASONS WHY A SERONEGATIVE TEST RESULT MIGHT OCCUR

Chronic Lyme Patients Get Political Victory: New Book by Top Infectious Disease Doctor Supports Long Term Antibiotic Treatment

Single or double dose prophylactic treatment for Lyme borreliosis has unacceptable failure rate

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