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France – Maladie de Lyme: 300 malades vont déposer plainte au pénal dès janvier
ByCanLyme January 23, 2018June 2, 2023
Dec 20, 2017 300 personnes atteintes de la maladie de Lyme vont porter plainte au pénal, début janvier. Des plaintes pour trafic d’influence, abus de biens sociaux et recel d’abus de bien sociaux, mise en danger de la vie d’autrui, violation du principe d’indépendance des experts et du principe d’absence de conflit d’intérêt. La maladie…
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France – Maladie de Lyme: 300 malades vont déposer plainte au pénal dès janvier
ByCanLyme January 23, 2018July 27, 2020
Dec 20, 2017 300 personnes atteintes de la maladie de Lyme vont porter plainte au pénal, début janvier. Des plaintes pour trafic d’influence, abus de biens sociaux et recel d’abus de bien sociaux, mise en danger de la vie d’autrui, violation du principe d’indépendance des experts et du principe d’absence de conflit d’intérêt. La maladie…
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Co-infections | For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in P.E.I. | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Lyme in the maritimes: Health P.E.I. should re-evaluate efforts at prevention and diagnosis of tick-borne diseases
ByCanLyme January 10, 2018July 27, 2020
BY CHRIS ROBINSON [ – Chris Robinson is a health economist / epidemiologist, and former head of Evidence and Risk Assessment Division, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada. He is now retired and living in Cavendish ] January 9th, 2017 published by The Guardian There are no deer on P.E.I….
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For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Saskatchewan | Voices on Lyme
Saskatoon women frustrated with provincial testing methods for Lyme disease
ByCanLyme January 9, 2018July 27, 2020
Erin Petrow, Saskatoon Starphoenix January 8th, 2018 When Danielle Briske started having severe migrating muscle pain and weakness, plus a variety of other symptoms, doctors kept telling her it was all in her head. As it turned out, Briske had contracted Lyme disease. The diagnosis took months and more than $8,000 to confirm. According to…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Legislative Package To Fight Lyme Disease Introduced In NY
ByCanLyme December 29, 2017July 27, 2020
December 29th, A package of state legislation aimed at fighting Lyme and tick-borne diseases is being introduced ahead of the 2018 session by Senator Susan Serino (R, Hyde Park), chairwoman of the Senate’s Lyme Task Force. She teamed up with Senator Kemp Hannon (R, Garden City), chairman of the Senate’s Health Committee, to introduce four…
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Events | International News | Miscellaneous
Canadian legend passes away – helped raise money for CanLyme – Johnny Bower
ByCanLyme December 27, 2017July 27, 2020
December 27th, 2017 Johnny Bower, Canadian hockey legend and amazing humanitarian passed away on December 26th, 2017. He was a hero to so many in the 1960’s and beyond including myself (Jim Wilson, President, CanLyme – a dogged Toronto Maple Leaf fan from about age 7, to today, age 64). How does this relate to…
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For Physicians | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research | Voices on Lyme
CANADA, CASE REPORT: New-onset Bell palsy and Lyme disease
ByCanLyme December 27, 2017July 27, 2020
[Canlyme Note: It is important for physicians to be aware that treatment duration is to be determined by the clinical presentation not by preset limitations. The only recognized guidelines that meet the Institute of Medicine GRADE level criteria, which are the only Lyme disease guidelines published on the US government guideline website, are those published by…
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Miscellaneous | Pets | Voices on Lyme
You must check your pets paws for ticks!!
ByCanLyme December 26, 2017July 27, 2020
Daily tick checks and using tick repellents on your pets is a must when you live in a tick endemic area …
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For Physicians | International News | Research
Spain has significant risk areas for contracting Lyme disease (borreliosis)
ByCanLyme December 25, 2017July 27, 2020
Molecular identification of Borrelia spirochetes in questing Ixodes ricinus from northwestern Spain Published online December 20th, 2107 Pablo Diaz et al ABSTRACT Background Ixodes ricinus, the predominant tick species in Europe, can transmit the causative agents of important human diseases such as Lyme borreliosis (LB), caused by Borrelia spirochetes. In northern Spain, LB is considered endemic; recently, a significant increase of the…
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Co-infections | For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy
Reindeer pet hit with tick borne babesiosis just south of Canadian border – survives
ByCanLyme December 23, 2017July 27, 2020
December 22nd, 2017 “Santa needs good reindeer.” That was what Red Jacket High School principal Mark Bracy told Mike Schaertl in early November. Schaertl, a chemistry and physics teacher in the district for the last 20 years, had gone home during his lunch hour to check on his two reindeer, Little Buddy and Moose. Schaertl said Little Buddy…
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For Physicians
Lyme disease in Alberta article takes number three spot in top ten stories for 2017
ByCanLyme December 22, 2017July 27, 2020
See top ten list Lyme-disease carrying ticks on the rise in Alberta Edmonton a possible hotspot; 6 things to watch for. By BEV BETKOWSKI Up to one in five Albertans bitten by ticks this summer could be at risk for Lyme disease, a University of Alberta expert says. Once thought to be rare in…
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For Physicians | International News | Research
Nearly 50% of ticks test positive for Lyme bacteria in Onondaga County
ByCanLyme December 20, 2017July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: This area is only a short flight to Ontario and Quebec for the migratory birds such as robins, wrens, and finches who carry these infected ticks into your region in the millions each season. Canada is endemic for Lyme disease and our government needs to stop wasting money chasing ticks and start funding research…
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For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research | Voices on Lyme
Late Disseminated Lyme Disease: Associated Pathology and Spirochete Persistence Post-Treatment in Rhesus Macaques
ByCanLyme December 18, 2017July 27, 2020
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2017.11.005 Nicholas A. Crossland, Xavier Alvarez, Monica E. Embers Abstract Non-human primates currently serve as the best experimental model for Lyme disease due to their close genetic homology with humans and demonstration of all three phases of disease following infection with Borreliella (Borrelia) burgdorferi (Bb). We investigated the pathology associated with late disseminated Lyme disease (12 to…
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For Physicians | International News | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Lyme disease in North America for 20,000 years
ByCanLyme December 11, 2017July 27, 2020
Lyme bacteria settled in North America far earlier than we thought While the Lyme disease outbreak in people dates back only about 40 years, the bacterium that causes this disease has called North America home for more than 20,000 years, according to a study published in August in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. The epidemic began…
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Co-infections | For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Poor Research | Research | Voices on Lyme
Interview: The flawed science behind the current global Lyme policies, diagnostics and treatment
ByCanLyme December 5, 2017July 27, 2020
Posted on on-lyme.org Dec 2nd, 2017 Written by Huib Holly Ahern is a professor of microbiology as well as the mother of a child that was severely affected by Lyme Disease. Because of this personal experience and her professional background and training, she was able to dissect the flaws in scientific reasoning that underlie decades of…
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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

France – Maladie de Lyme: 300 malades vont déposer plainte au pénal dès janvier

France – Maladie de Lyme: 300 malades vont déposer plainte au pénal dès janvier

Lyme in the maritimes: Health P.E.I. should re-evaluate efforts at prevention and diagnosis of tick-borne diseases

Saskatoon women frustrated with provincial testing methods for Lyme disease

Legislative Package To Fight Lyme Disease Introduced In NY

Canadian legend passes away – helped raise money for CanLyme – Johnny Bower

CANADA, CASE REPORT: New-onset Bell palsy and Lyme disease

You must check your pets paws for ticks!!

Spain has significant risk areas for contracting Lyme disease (borreliosis)

Reindeer pet hit with tick borne babesiosis just south of Canadian border – survives

Lyme disease in Alberta article takes number three spot in top ten stories for 2017

Nearly 50% of ticks test positive for Lyme bacteria in Onondaga County

Late Disseminated Lyme Disease: Associated Pathology and Spirochete Persistence Post-Treatment in Rhesus Macaques

Lyme disease in North America for 20,000 years

Interview: The flawed science behind the current global Lyme policies, diagnostics and treatment

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