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Media Advisory: Health officials to present information about blacklegged ticks and Lyme disease in Toronto
ByCanLyme May 15, 2019July 27, 2020
May 15, 2019 Health officials to present information about blacklegged ticks and Lyme disease in Toronto Toronto Public Health will hold a media event tomorrow at Morningside Park to describe the City’s blacklegged tick surveillance activities and provide tips to help Torontonians avoid contracting Lyme disease. The event will include a demonstration of “dragging”…
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There’s no evidence quick dose of antibiotics will stave off Lyme
ByCanLyme May 7, 2019July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: Canadians have got to beware of information produced by any members of the Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network (CLyDRN) as their information does not serve you the public, but instead serves the for-profit medical industry and their many components while patients struggle with a lifetime of disability and multiple daily drugs not intended to…
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A Boy Heard a Buzzing Sound in His Ear. It Was a Tick on His Eardrum.
ByCanLyme May 2, 2019July 27, 2020
By Rachael Rettner, May 2nd, 2019 A 9-year-old boy who heard a buzzing sound in his ear turned out to have a tick attached to his eardrum. Above, an image of the tick inside the boy’s ear. There are some sounds you hope you never hear. For example, the buzzing sound of a tick burrowing…
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When Lyme Disease Doesn’t Go Away
ByCanLyme May 2, 2019July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: The term “post-treatment” is misleading because it implies effective treatment was given when in fact it was not, because it was too short in duration, dosage, or the wrong antibiotic or antibiotic combination for that person.] iIt’s tick season. Here’s what Brian Fallon, the director of Columbia’s Lyme & Tick-borne Diseases Research Center,…
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Ontario, Canada: ‘I thought I was going to die’: 3 Dufferin County residents battling Lyme disease hope to help others avoid similar fate
ByCanLyme April 30, 2019July 27, 2020
Apr 29, 2019 – by Alexandra Heck Orangeville Banner “For three and a half years, Costigan suffered from about 33 different symptoms, including flu, neurological, spasms, headaches and more. After a slew of testing and referrals to different doctors, there was a clue. What if it was Lyme disease, one specialist suggested, noting that he…
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Co-infections | For Physicians | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Microbiome analysis of Ixodes scapularis ticks from New York and Connecticut.
ByCanLyme April 27, 2019July 27, 2020
Ahead of print abstract…April 15, 2019 Abstract We employed high throughput sequencing to survey the microbiomes of Ixodes scapularis collected in New York and Connecticut. We examined 197 individual I. scapularis adults and pools from 132 adults and 197 nymphs. We detected Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto in 56.3% of individual ticks, Anaplasma phagocytophilum in 10.6%,…
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Three-antibiotic cocktail clears ‘persister’ Lyme bacteria in mouse study
ByCanLyme April 24, 2019July 27, 2020
April 23rd, 2019 A new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that a slow-growing variant form of Lyme bacteria caused severe symptoms in a mouse model. The slow-growing variant form of Lyme bacteria, according to the researchers, may account for the persistent symptoms seen in ten to twenty…
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Co-infections | For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Tick-borne pathogen detection in midgut and salivary glands of adult Ixodes ricinus
ByCanLyme April 18, 2019July 27, 2020
Lejal et al. Parasites Vectors (2019) 12:152 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3418-7 Abstract Background: The tick midgut and salivary glands represent the primary organs for pathogen acquisition and trans‑ mission, respectively. Specifcally, the midgut is the frst organ to have contact with pathogens during the blood meal uptake, while salivary glands along with their secretions play a crucial role…
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The Scientist – Opinion: The “Money Culture” in Academic Biomedical Research
ByCanLyme April 15, 2019July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: This for profit money drive takes medical research away from cure to ‘a drug for every symptom’. In Canada, relative to Lyme disease, the private Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease of Canada (AMMI), is an extension of the ‘do not cure’ medical money machine. They offer opinion and poorly designed research to…
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Bartonella henselae Bloodstream Infection in a Boy With Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome
ByCanLyme April 13, 2019July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: Bartonella bacteria can be transmitted by ticks, cat scratches, dog saliva, etc.] Published in the Jounral of Central Nervous System Disease, March 18th, Edward B Breitshwerdt et al Abstract Background: With the advent of more sensitive culture and molecular diagnostic testing modalities, Bartonella spp. infections have been documented in blood and/or cerebrospinal fluid specimens from patients…
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ON Health Minister to Meet Lyme Mom & her Experts!
ByCanLyme April 11, 2019July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: This abuse of parents, typically by medical ‘specialists’ in our children’s hospitals across Canada, has been occurring for years relative to Lyme disease, and not once have we heard where Children’s Aid have sided with the medical ‘specialists’ who seem to specialize in institutionalizing dogma rather than treating patients. Mothers in BC, Alberta, Nova,…
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For Physicians | Government | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Nova Scotia | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Lyme disease treatment needs better approach, Conservatives say
ByCanLyme April 9, 2019July 27, 2020
Tim Houston and the Progressive Conservatives are urging the province to take a new approach to combating the growing Lyme disease endemic in Nova Scotia. “The province’s focus on prevention is skirting the real issue that people will continue to be bitten by ticks in this province and people are continuing to contract Lyme disease,”…
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Events | Lyme in Manitoba | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Please join us… Buffalo Point, Manitoba proactive in Lyme awareness and fundraising.
ByCanLyme April 5, 2019July 27, 2020
The vibrant and scenic community of Buffalo Point, Manitoba, situated on the three borders of Manitoba, Ontario, and Minnesota has been a leader in raising awareness about Lyme disease for years. They have been holding Lyme Walks each summer for the past 5 years and raising money for CanLyme (which helps us support young scientists…
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For Physicians | Lyme in BC | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Tick Talk – theORCA.ca “At the risk of making you feel itchy, a must-know for B.C. hikers”
ByCanLyme April 5, 2019July 27, 2020
April 4, 2019 No matter where you are in British Columbia, our province is blessed with some of the finest hiking terrain in the world. However, at this time of the year especially, it comes with a downside: Ticks. A little bug with a potentially devastating bite! “If you’re an entomologist and you like to…
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First European Crypto-Infections Conference
ByCanLyme April 1, 2019July 27, 2020
Europe hosts their first Crypto-Infections Conference as an important first step in bringing attention to these infections that are perplexing the medical community and causing so much misery and misdiagnosis within the patient population. Some of the worlds leading experts from the United States and Europe will be presenting. This is a serious global issue…
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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

Media Advisory: Health officials to present information about blacklegged ticks and Lyme disease in Toronto

There’s no evidence quick dose of antibiotics will stave off Lyme

A Boy Heard a Buzzing Sound in His Ear. It Was a Tick on His Eardrum.

When Lyme Disease Doesn’t Go Away

Ontario, Canada: ‘I thought I was going to die’: 3 Dufferin County residents battling Lyme disease hope to help others avoid similar fate

Microbiome analysis of Ixodes scapularis ticks from New York and Connecticut.

Three-antibiotic cocktail clears ‘persister’ Lyme bacteria in mouse study

Tick-borne pathogen detection in midgut and salivary glands of adult Ixodes ricinus

The Scientist – Opinion: The “Money Culture” in Academic Biomedical Research

Bartonella henselae Bloodstream Infection in a Boy With Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome

ON Health Minister to Meet Lyme Mom & her Experts!

Lyme disease treatment needs better approach, Conservatives say

Please join us… Buffalo Point, Manitoba proactive in Lyme awareness and fundraising.

Tick Talk – theORCA.ca “At the risk of making you feel itchy, a must-know for B.C. hikers”

First European Crypto-Infections Conference

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