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Shania Twain: I’m never going to have my old voice again
ByCanLyme March 11, 2020July 27, 2020
March 8, 2020 “She got the tick-borne illness in 2003, and had to undergo open-throat surgery after her voice was damaged by the effects of dysphonia as a result of the disease. Now, Shania has said she “mourned” the loss of her voice, …” ” Speaking in a preview clip for an upcoming interview, she…
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Canadian has brain of 70-year-old after ‘flawed’ test let disease go undiagnosed for years
ByCanLyme March 11, 2020July 27, 2020
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…
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Post-treatment Lyme Disease as a Model for Persistent Symptoms in Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme March 10, 2020July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: The term post treatment Lyme disease syndrome is controversial and excludes those not effectively treated following the current treatment guidelines imposed upon physicians and patients.] “It has long been observed in clinical practice that a subset of patients with Lyme disease report a constellation of symptoms such as fatigue, cognitive difficulties, and musculoskeletal…
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A Mystery Illness That Changed My Life
ByCanLyme March 10, 2020July 27, 2020
“As I was getting my body ready for my 1st pregnancy, my doctor at the time was running blood work, and I was told I had a low white blood cell count. This ended up being chronic, and I went through my first and second pregnancy not making anything much of it. I had seen…
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Borrelia burgdorferi hijacks cellular metabolism of immune cells: Consequences for host defense
ByCanLyme March 7, 2020July 27, 2020
Abstract Changes in cellular metabolism have proven to be important factors in driving cell behavior. It has been shown that cellular metabolism of immune cells changes when exposed to or infected by several pathogens: while this is often an adaptation of the host cells to the infection, sometimes it represents a mechanism through which the…
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Transgenic functional complementation with a transmission -associated protein restores spirochete infectivity by tick bite
ByCanLyme March 7, 2020July 27, 2020
Abstract The relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii and the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto each produces an abundant, orthologous, outer membrane protein, Vtp and OspC, respectively, when transmitted by tick bite. Gene inactivation studies have shown that both proteins are essential for spirochete infectivity when transmitted by their respective tick vectors. Therefore, we transformed a vtp-minus mutant of B….
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For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Tipping Point: The Resistance Is Gaining In The Lyme Wars
ByCanLyme February 28, 2020July 27, 2020
By Mary Beth Pfeiffer ” Government and medicine have systematically failed to diagnose, treat or prevent a spreading plague of ticks. And they know it. “ For two decades, Lyme disease has had dueling identities. A burgeoning epidemic wrought by ticks. A raging controversy over why patients stay sick – and what to do for…
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Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
The General Symptom Questionnaire-30 (GSQ-30): A Brief Measure of Multi-System Symptom Burden in Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme February 28, 2020July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: The term post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) referenced in this article is contentious as it implies treatment has eradicated the infectious Lyme disease borrelia bacteria. There is an abundance of evidence showing that the bacteria can survive recommended treatment periods. Many people do well with longer term treatment while others do not respond…
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Canada loses a great Lyme disease defender, Paul Haefling author of Oh Canada: The “Politicks” of Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme February 27, 2020July 27, 2020
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)…
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Ethnobotanical medicine is effective against the bacterium causing Lyme disease
ByCanLyme February 26, 2020July 27, 2020
Neuroscience News February 21, 2020 …” The researchers show that plant extracts from black walnut, cat’s claw, sweet wormwood, Mediterranean rockrose, and Chinese skullcap had strong activity against B. burgdorferi, outperforming both tested antibiotics.” Read full article
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Genetic Manipulation of Borrelia Spp
ByCanLyme February 19, 2020July 27, 2020
Abstract The spirochetes Borrelia (Borreliella) burgdorferi and Borrelia hermsii, the etiologic agents of Lyme disease and relapsing fever, respectively, cycle in nature between an arthropod vector and a vertebrate host. They have extraordinarily unusual genomes that are highly segmented and predominantly linear. The genetic analyses of Lyme disease spirochetes have become increasingly more sophisticated, while the age of genetic investigation…
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Canada: Serious flaws in a medical system lacking medical and scientific ethic
ByCanLyme February 19, 2020July 27, 2020
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…
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Legal case against IDSA doctors making progress
ByCanLyme February 19, 2020July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: In this case the IDSA means Infectious Disease Society of America who are the defendant doctors. The Lyme disease file in Canada is dominated by IDSA, via their Canadian equivalent AMMI, the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases of Canada who are just as devoid of ethical standards who control the highest positions…
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Lyme documentary: Faces of Lyme – Ambivalence & Controversy
ByCanLyme February 13, 2020January 23, 2024
Every province in Canada is now endemic for Lyme disease.
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What’s driving the explosion in Lyme Disease in Canada?
ByCanLyme February 11, 2020July 27, 2020
In today’s Big Story podcast, it’s a disease we never expected to see with any regularity in Canada, only to realize–perhaps too late–that maybe that was dumb. It’s a mistake to think of Lyme Disease as a rare illness now. Because all the data we have–and we don’t have enough–shows us that it is exploding…
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News and updates

One year later: How the landmark NASEM report on chronic Lyme is – and isn’t – changing minds

Germs spread by ticks and cats found in suicidal youth

Scholarship opportunity for undergraduates with a project focused on Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases

Living with persistent illness and uncertainty: Patient narratives on Lyme disease in Nova Scotia, Canada

Lyme disease is becoming one of Canada’s defining climate-health challenges

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

Shania Twain: I’m never going to have my old voice again

Canadian has brain of 70-year-old after ‘flawed’ test let disease go undiagnosed for years

Post-treatment Lyme Disease as a Model for Persistent Symptoms in Lyme Disease

A Mystery Illness That Changed My Life

Borrelia burgdorferi hijacks cellular metabolism of immune cells: Consequences for host defense

Transgenic functional complementation with a transmission -associated protein restores spirochete infectivity by tick bite

Tipping Point: The Resistance Is Gaining In The Lyme Wars

The General Symptom Questionnaire-30 (GSQ-30): A Brief Measure of Multi-System Symptom Burden in Lyme Disease

Canada loses a great Lyme disease defender, Paul Haefling author of Oh Canada: The “Politicks” of Lyme Disease

Ethnobotanical medicine is effective against the bacterium causing Lyme disease

Genetic Manipulation of Borrelia Spp

Canada: Serious flaws in a medical system lacking medical and scientific ethic

Legal case against IDSA doctors making progress

Lyme documentary: Faces of Lyme – Ambivalence & Controversy

What’s driving the explosion in Lyme Disease in Canada?

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