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How many cases of Lyme disease are we missing?
ByCanLyme June 27, 2019July 27, 2020
June 27th, 2019 DONNA LUGAR I participated in a “Tick Talk” in Bedford with Lisa Ali Learning of AtlanTick on June 25. One takeaway from that meeting, for me anyway, is that we are not doing enough to ensure Nova Scotians are adequately aware of the risks associated with tick bites. One family, new to…
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For Physicians | Guidelines - Boxing-in disease | International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Poor Research
The new draft of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) guidelines open for public comment for 45 days.
ByCanLyme June 27, 2019July 27, 2020
The IDSA has presented their draft guidelines which with a brief scan appear not much different then their old controversial poorly evidenced guidelines. Much of the same old players and 3 token patients. Typical unequal representation. Public comments close August 10th. Take your time, make notes before you enter their controlled comment format process as…
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Ottawa mom warns parents to check their kids for ticks after her toddler is diagnosed with Lyme disease
ByCanLyme June 26, 2019July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: It is nice to hear that the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) ‘may’ be actually taking this seriously finally. Mothers in Ontario and at many other children’s hospitals across Canada in the very recent past have been accused of having Munchausen by Proxy simply because they fought for their children’s rights after a…
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Avril Lavigne announces 1st tour since Lyme disease diagnosis
ByCanLyme June 26, 2019July 27, 2020
June 24th, 2019 “Lavigne says she wrote all of the songs sitting in her bed or on the couch while the effects of Lyme disease made her body feel like it was shutting down. “I felt like I was drowning. Like I was going under water and I just needed to come up for air,”…
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‘Scary World’ of Generic Drug Manufacturing, Revealed
ByCanLyme June 22, 2019July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: This is very important for those being treated for Lyme disease who may not be responding to the treatment. It may be bad medication. Talk to your doctor and pharmacist to possibly switch manufacturers. One wonders what Health Canada is doing about this serious problem.] Ellie Kincaid June 06, 2019 In 2008, investigative journalist Katherine Eban…
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International News | Miscellaneous
First US human bite from worrying longhorned tick noted
ByCanLyme June 22, 2019July 27, 2020
“The tick was found in the United States for the first time in 2017 on a sheep in New Jersey, and since then, the species has been found in at least 10 states, mainly in the eastern states but also Arkansas. It’s still not known how widespread Asian longhorned ticks are in the United States,…
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For Physicians | Lyme in Ontario
Tick found south of North Bay tested positive for Lyme disease
ByCanLyme June 22, 2019July 27, 2020
The yearly trend indicates that there is an increased presence of blacklegged ticks testing positive in our district. The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit has confirmed a blacklegged tick found in Dunchurch tested positive for the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacteria that can cause Lyme disease. To date in 2019, 14 ticks have been sent…
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Co-infections | International News | Miscellaneous
TICKED OFF Deadly ticks carrying Ebola-like Congo fever ‘found in UK after spreading across Europe’
ByCanLyme June 21, 2019July 27, 2020
June 19th, 2019 A TICK capable of carrying killer Ebola-like viruses has been found in the UK after spreading across Europe, health officials say. The blood-sucking Hyalomma rufipes tick is usually only found in Africa, Asia and parts of southern Europe. Read article
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NBC Today Show: Magician spends years trying to solve his medical mystery
ByCanLyme June 20, 2019July 27, 2020
Mentalist and magician Max Major is an expert at perception and making things disappear. But for most of his adult life, he hadn’t felt 100%. Joined by Dr. Natalie Azar on the 3rd hour of TODAY, he shares his medical mystery and road to a diagnosis. Watch TV piece
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Breakthrough paves way for new Lyme disease treatment
ByCanLyme June 18, 2019July 27, 2020
published June 17th, 2019 A Virginia Tech biochemist has discovered the cellular component that contributes to Lyme arthritis, a debilitating and extremely painful condition that is the most common late stage symptom of Lyme disease, a press release said. According to the release from Virginia Tech, the biochemist, Brandon Jutras, found that as the Lyme-causing bacteria borrelia burgdorferi multiplies, it…
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Co-infection of bacteria and protozoan parasites in Ixodes ricinus nymphs collected in the Alsace region, France
ByCanLyme June 16, 2019July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: ‘No Tick is a Good Tick’ Canadian ticks are equally co-infected.] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2019.06.001 Abstract Fifty nymphal Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in Alsace, France, identified by morphological criteria and using MALDI-TOF MS, were tested by PCR to detect tick-associated bacteria and protozoan parasites. Seventy percent (35/50) of ticks contained at least one microorganism; 26% (9/35) contained two or…
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Deadly tick-borne virus cured with experimental flu drug, in mice
ByCanLyme June 14, 2019July 27, 2020
Bourbon virus has sickened people in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma June 13, 2019 “Without the flu drug, 100 percent of the infected mice died, and with the treatment, 100 percent survived,” said Jacco Boon, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine and the paper’s senior author. “Up until now, doctors have not had any way to…
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever: Mom warns after son’s tick-borne illness
ByCanLyme June 13, 2019July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: This is why our motto is ‘No Tick is a Good Tick’. Physicians have got to stop telling people not to worry about tick bites in general. Any species of tick that will bite a human can transmit various serious diseases.] Most people have never heard of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. One mom wants…
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Nova Scotia woman behind ‘AtlanTick’ tick repellent shares her children’s struggle with Lyme disease
ByCanLyme June 12, 2019July 27, 2020
June 11, 2019 When it comes to her kids, Mahone Bay’s Lisa Ali-Learning isn’t taking any chances. So when her sons, Darian and Lucas, started to complain about joint pains two years ago, she immediately took them to get tested for Lyme disease. They tested negative. Months passed and with their health declining, the boys…
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Co-infections | For Physicians | Government | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Manitoba | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
TICK-BORNE DISEASE COLLABORATIVE CARE TO STREAMLINE HELP FOR MANITOBANS
ByCanLyme June 11, 2019July 27, 2020
Manitobans Reminded to Check for Ticks: Friesen June 10th, 2019 The Manitoba government is moving forward with the establishment of a collaborative care service to streamline and improve health services for patients who show symptoms of late Lyme disease and other emerging tick-borne illnesses, Health, Seniors and Active Living Minister Cameron Friesen announced today. “Symptoms…
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News and updates

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

Why Lyme disease isn’t the only tick-borne infection you need to worry about

Lyme disease and your pregnancy: Why avoiding tick bites could protect your unborn child

Lack of experience no obstacle at this obstacle course

Interventions to manage mold and mycotoxicities

Environmental toxicities: Confounding presentations

How many cases of Lyme disease are we missing?

The new draft of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) guidelines open for public comment for 45 days.

Ottawa mom warns parents to check their kids for ticks after her toddler is diagnosed with Lyme disease

Avril Lavigne announces 1st tour since Lyme disease diagnosis

‘Scary World’ of Generic Drug Manufacturing, Revealed

First US human bite from worrying longhorned tick noted

Tick found south of North Bay tested positive for Lyme disease

TICKED OFF Deadly ticks carrying Ebola-like Congo fever ‘found in UK after spreading across Europe’

NBC Today Show: Magician spends years trying to solve his medical mystery

Breakthrough paves way for new Lyme disease treatment

Co-infection of bacteria and protozoan parasites in Ixodes ricinus nymphs collected in the Alsace region, France

Deadly tick-borne virus cured with experimental flu drug, in mice

Rocky Mountain spotted fever: Mom warns after son’s tick-borne illness

Nova Scotia woman behind ‘AtlanTick’ tick repellent shares her children’s struggle with Lyme disease

TICK-BORNE DISEASE COLLABORATIVE CARE TO STREAMLINE HELP FOR MANITOBANS

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