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Toronto Star: Pet owners help university track ticks through new online tool
ByCanLyme August 7, 2017July 27, 2020
Pathobiology professor Scott Weese, who developed the Tick Tracker, says the data could serve as an “early warning system.” By Isabel Teotonio August 7th, 2017 When Ellen Holmes takes her two cocker spaniels for a walk on her 40-hectare property – a pooch paradise made up of ponds, trails and thick brush – they always…
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Updates
MALADIE DE LYME. Le cri d’alarme de 100 médecins : “Il y a urgence”
ByCanLyme August 4, 2017June 2, 2023
ils lancent l’alerte. De plus en plus souvent, ces médecins sont confrontés à des malades qui errent des années d’hôpital en hôpital. Paralysés, souffrant de douleurs musculaires et articulaires, on leur a diagnostiqué à tort un Alzheimer, une sclérose en plaques ou une spondylartrite. Ils sont en fait atteints de la maladie de Lyme…
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Co-infections | For Physicians | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
BABESIA CASES SKYROCKET IN WISCONSIN WITH A 26-FOLD INCREASE
ByCanLyme July 24, 2017July 27, 2020
by Daniel J. Cameron, MD, MPH In Wisconsin, between 2001 and 2015, “there was a 26-fold increase in the incidence of confirmed babesiosis, in addition to geographic expansion,” according to MMWR. [1] The report listed suburbanization, forest fragmentation patterns, and warming average temperatures as potential causes behind the surge. The rising prevalence of co-infections in rodents may also…
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Saskatchewan: Sask. Lyme disease patients are falling through the cracks
ByCanLyme July 24, 2017July 27, 2020
The Saskatchewan government says there have been three cases of Lyme disease in the province since 2008. Five Lyme patients beg to differ. Anika Kosteniuk was 13 years old when a tick bite changed her life. She was on vacation in Virginia, on the acreage of her great-aunt and uncle, when she found an…
Read More Saskatchewan: Sask. Lyme disease patients are falling through the cracks
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Two women joined in a mission to learn more about a still misunderstood condition
ByCanLyme July 24, 2017July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: CanLyme and the G Magnotta Foundation for Vector Borne Diseases have worked together for 5 years to bring this research program to fruition. This is the first step in a major thrust to aid in diagnostics, inform treatment, and bring much needed knowledge to the Canadian medical community.] CTV National News: Motivated by trajedy….
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Stevia could offer cure for Lyme disease, researchers say
ByCanLyme July 13, 2017July 27, 2020
Published July 12th, 2017 Stevia, a common coffee sweetener, could be a possible cure for Lyme disease after tests conducted by a Connecticut professor and her students showed it was most effective in treating the tick-borne illness. Professor Eva Sapi, chairwoman of University of New Haven’s Department of Biology and Environmental Science, and her students have…
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Human Rights Violations of Relapsing Fever and Lyme Disease Patients Under International Investigation
ByCanLyme June 28, 2017July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: CanLyme was approached by Jenna Luché-Thayer early this year after her finding out that the World Health Organization (WHO) had held a meeting in November 2016 regarding updating the WHO International Classification of Diseases codes (ICD codes) relative to tick borne diseases. WHO is mandated to work with stakeholders yet no patient groups…
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Global News: Lone Star ticks that cause red meat allergies are on their way to Canada
ByCanLyme June 27, 2017July 27, 2020
Jun 27th, 2017 By Carmen Chai It looks like Lyme disease isn’t the only thing Canadians need to worry about contracting from ticks. A bite from the Lone Star tick can trigger an allergy to red meat, and the tiny bug is making its way into Canada. For decades, scientists kept a watchful eye over…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Vancouver Sun: Longtime B.C. environmental activist Gwen Barlee dies of cancer
ByCanLyme June 23, 2017July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: Gwen contracted Lyme disease many years ago and was a well spoken activist who despised the double-talk and arrogance of the bureaucrats who have misled Canadians for years on Lyme disease. She was a great friend and ally of the Lyme community and will be deeply missed.] Vancouver Sun by Stephanie Ip Published on: June…
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CTV News Toronto: Students warned because ticks are found at schools.
ByCanLyme June 20, 2017July 27, 2020
Kids picking up ticks at schools. Not only found in wooded areas. This further emphasizes that the over emphasis from government about ticks being only found in certain area is a harmful and misleading policy. Had patients been involved in policy making like they are on most other diseases the public would be much more…
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France: Chronic Lyme is real and treat with long term antibiotics.
ByCanLyme June 18, 2017July 27, 2020
Inside Europe: Lyme disease on the rise in France Lyme disease, which you get when bitten by an infected tick, has reached epidemic proportions in France. With 33,000 new officially confirmed cases last year, the government has launched an action plan to fight it. John Laurenson reports from the village of Feucherolles in central France…
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CBC News: Lyme disease research, funding falling behind in Canada
ByCanLyme June 18, 2017July 27, 2020
June 18th, 2017 – by Jennifer Seiff for CBC News When I got sick in May 2016 with what I suspected was Lyme disease, I learned fast about tick-borne illnesses in Canada. What I learned was that out-of-date lab tests mean many people may altogether miss a diagnosis of Lyme – an infectious disease spread through the bite…
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CTV Winnipeg: 12-year-old boy suffers infection from wood tick
ByCanLyme June 14, 2017July 27, 2020
June 13th, 2017 … “I felt something on my back, so I pulled it off and it was a tick,” said Ferguson. “So I just killed it and threw it away.” Logan said it was a wood tick, so he didn’t give it a second thought. But a couple of days later he started feeling…
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LANDMARK PARTNERSHIP PAVES WAY FOR CANADA’S FIRST RESEARCH FACILITY TO IMPROVE LYME DISEASE TESTING AND TREATMENT
ByCanLyme June 14, 2017July 27, 2020
New G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab to be Established at the University of Guelph; $1.4 Million Grant Awarded June 14, 2017 – GUEPLH, Ontario: The G. Magnotta Foundation for Vector-Borne Diseases has announced a $1.4 million grant over three years to the University of Guelph, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology to undertake Canada’s…
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Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | News from CanLyme | Voices on Lyme
With great sadness we report that the Canadian Lyme community has lost a valuable friend and asset.
ByCanLyme June 11, 2017July 27, 2020
Debra Fraleigh, an articulate and caring individual who worked endlessly behind the scenes researching evidence, evaluating government and medical leadership statements on Lyme disease, and then writing excellent letters of rebuttal, lost her battle with cancer on June 9th, 2017. Debra, like far too many Canadians also battled Lyme disease and then, battled the medical…
Read More With great sadness we report that the Canadian Lyme community has lost a valuable friend and asset.

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

Toronto Star: Pet owners help university track ticks through new online tool

MALADIE DE LYME. Le cri d’alarme de 100 médecins : “Il y a urgence”

BABESIA CASES SKYROCKET IN WISCONSIN WITH A 26-FOLD INCREASE

Saskatchewan: Sask. Lyme disease patients are falling through the cracks

Two women joined in a mission to learn more about a still misunderstood condition

Stevia could offer cure for Lyme disease, researchers say

Human Rights Violations of Relapsing Fever and Lyme Disease Patients Under International Investigation

Global News: Lone Star ticks that cause red meat allergies are on their way to Canada

Vancouver Sun: Longtime B.C. environmental activist Gwen Barlee dies of cancer

CTV News Toronto: Students warned because ticks are found at schools.

France: Chronic Lyme is real and treat with long term antibiotics.

CBC News: Lyme disease research, funding falling behind in Canada

CTV Winnipeg: 12-year-old boy suffers infection from wood tick

LANDMARK PARTNERSHIP PAVES WAY FOR CANADA’S FIRST RESEARCH FACILITY TO IMPROVE LYME DISEASE TESTING AND TREATMENT

With great sadness we report that the Canadian Lyme community has lost a valuable friend and asset.

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