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Swedish MD suspended over Lyme disease care; patients bereft
ByCanLyme March 4, 2017July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: Canada has suspended almost 100% of doctors who diagnose and treat Lyme disease based appropriately by all standards upon a clinical diagnosis, and patient response to treatment. The level of misinformation and anti-scientific standards endorsed and supported by the United States Center for Disease Control and those countries like Canada and Sweden who blindly…
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Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Doctors Who Treat Chronic and Rare Illnesses: Quacks or Heroes?
ByCanLyme March 3, 2017July 27, 2020
March 1, 2017 David Michael Conner The Huffington Post “Many readers of my writing know that I have spent the better part of a decade navigating a gauntlet of medical practitioners who are so “inside the box” of conventional practice, over a dozen specialists sent me into a state of alarm and then pulled the…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Triathlete Kirsten Sweetland, sidelined by health, calls it a career
ByCanLyme March 3, 2017July 27, 2020
Cleve Dheensaw, Times Colonist, March 2nd Triathlete Kirsten Sweetland of Victoria, a former teen prodigy who overcame career-threatening injuries to realize her dream last year in Rio of competing in the Olympics, has retired. The 28-year-old knew it was time because “the decision came a little bit too easy,” she said. Sweetland found out five…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Alberta | Lyme in BC | Lyme in Manitoba | Lyme in New Brunswick | Lyme in Newfoundland | Lyme in Nova Scotia | Lyme in Ontario | Lyme in quebec | Lyme in Saskatchewan | Media | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
New Lyme disease petition urges action plan rewrite
ByCanLyme March 2, 2017July 27, 2020
Richmond Hill Liberal – Kim Zarzour, March 1st, 2017 A new petition asking the Canadian government for a better action plan to combat Lyme disease has been sponsored by Green party Leader Elizabeth May. May was responsible for the introduction and approval of Bill 442, requiring the government to create an action plan with input…
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Featured | For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Research
New York Times: More Than 80 Percent of Patient Groups Accept Drug Industry Funds, Study Shows
ByCanLyme March 2, 2017July 27, 2020
[CanLyme Note: We have been approached by various pharma industry to work with them but we have steadfastly refused in order to maintain our independence, so as to not be beholding to the for-profit industry. Now if government and the Canadian medical associations and societies could shake their relationship with big-pharma then perhaps better health care…
Read More New York Times: More Than 80 Percent of Patient Groups Accept Drug Industry Funds, Study Shows
For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Voices on Lyme
VOCAL – Voices Of Canadians Against Lyme – Teens, Listen to a song created to bring attention to the dire situation of Lyme in Canada
ByCanLyme March 1, 2017July 27, 2020
LISTEN TO SONG BELOW: Children in Canada are suffering from Chronic Lyme Disease, please help them out and sign the petition, they deserve to have access to treatment and accurate testing for this disease. VOCAL TEEN GROUP (Voices Of Canadians Against Lyme) https://petitions.parl.gc.ca/en/Petition/Sign/e-903 Sign Petition Listen Now
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Co-infections | For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Research
Identification of Novel Zoonotic Activity of Bartonella spp
ByCanLyme February 28, 2017July 27, 2020
Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Mar;22(3):457-62. doi: 10.3201/eid2203.150269 Abstract Certain Bartonella species are known to cause afebrile bacteremia in humans and other mammals, including B. quintana, the agent of trench fever, and B. henselae, the agent of cat scratch disease. Reports have indicated that animal-associated Bartonella species may cause paucisymptomatic bacteremia and endocarditis in humans. We…
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Research
Comparison of bacterial 16S rRNA variable regions for microbiomesurveys of ticks
ByCanLyme February 28, 2017July 27, 2020
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2017.02.002 Abstract Ticks vector diverse pathogenic bacteria that are important to identify in public health and veterinary contexts. Technological advances in high throughput sequencing have given an unprecedented opportunity to comprehensively characterize bacterial associates of ticks, but recent studies have used different 16S rRNA variable regions and sequence read lengths with little consideration of…
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Co-infections | For Physicians | Medical Publications | Research
DON’T COUNT ON A RELAPSING FEVER TO DIAGNOSE BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI
ByCanLyme February 27, 2017July 27, 2020
You might assume a patient infected with Borrelia miyamotoi, a relapsing fever spirochete, to present with a relapsing fever. However, your assumption would be wrong 48 out of 50 times, according to a case series published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. [1] The authors found that only 2 out of 50 patients infected with…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Pets | Research | Voices on Lyme
Tick-borne Lyme disease exploding into Michigan; human cases up 5-fold
ByCanLyme February 24, 2017July 27, 2020
Feb. 23, 2017 Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press They’re already back. All it took was an unusual February warm spell this past week for the tiny insects causing an increasingly big problem in Michigan to become active once again, beginning their hunt for blood. “A student in the medical entomology lab just brought in six adult blacklegged…
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Co-infections | For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Poor Research | Research | Voices on Lyme
Anti-science old guard taking last dying breaths of continuing to misinform physicians using tax payer dollars
ByCanLyme February 23, 2017July 27, 2020
Here is their opinion article title, amazing in 2017 how poorly they reference their evidence… “False and Misleading Information about Lyme Disease” Here is one of their uniformed statements, “Persistent, unexplained subjective symptoms such as chronic fatigue and pain are common in the general population. Annual surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and…
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For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Research | Voices on Lyme
Lyme sufferers devastated by federal government’s action plan
ByCanLyme February 22, 2017July 27, 2020
Richmond Hill Liberal, February 22, 2017 When Shari Allen first went public with her battle with Lyme disease, she was very sick, but she had hope. In 2015, the disease had upended her life, left her unable to work, her savings depleted, suffering from constant headaches and joint pain, but the Thornhill woman still believed this…
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For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Detection of Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, in Blacklegged Ticks Collected in the Grand River Valley, Ontario, Canada
ByCanLyme February 17, 2017July 27, 2020
Scott et al. Received: 2016.09.29; Accepted: 2016.12.28; Published: 2017.02.08 Abstract We document the presence of blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis, in the Grand River valley, Centre Wellington, Ontario. Overall, 15 (36%) of 42 I. scapularis adults collected from 41 mammalian hosts (dogs, cats, humans) were positive for the Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.)….
Read More Detection of Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, in Blacklegged Ticks Collected in the Grand River Valley, Ontario, Canada
For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Global Network on Institutional Discrimination: Lyme disease patients denied care and insurance coverage because of missing diagnostic codes
ByCanLyme February 8, 2017July 27, 2020
News provided by Global Network on Institutional Discrimination Feb 08, 2017, 10:04 ET VERO BEACH, Fla., Feb. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Struck by a duck? Burned because your water skis caught on fire? Have a bizarre personal appearance? Fortunately, the World Health Organization has assigned over 68,000 diagnostic codes to cover these and thousands of…
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For Physicians | Government | Government reports & letters | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications
Draft of report to parliament regarding Bill 442 now online and open to public input.
ByCanLyme February 7, 2017April 11, 2024
February 7th, 2017 As per the requirements of Bill 442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Health Canada held a conference on Lyme disease in May of 2016. It was a well balanced conference that revealed significant divergent opinions among experts on the most important issues to the affected Canadian… diagnosis and treatment. Without…
Read More Draft of report to parliament regarding Bill 442 now online and open to public input.

News and updates

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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

Swedish MD suspended over Lyme disease care; patients bereft

Doctors Who Treat Chronic and Rare Illnesses: Quacks or Heroes?

Triathlete Kirsten Sweetland, sidelined by health, calls it a career

New Lyme disease petition urges action plan rewrite

New York Times: More Than 80 Percent of Patient Groups Accept Drug Industry Funds, Study Shows

VOCAL – Voices Of Canadians Against Lyme – Teens, Listen to a song created to bring attention to the dire situation of Lyme in Canada

Identification of Novel Zoonotic Activity of Bartonella spp

Comparison of bacterial 16S rRNA variable regions for microbiomesurveys of ticks

DON’T COUNT ON A RELAPSING FEVER TO DIAGNOSE BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI

Tick-borne Lyme disease exploding into Michigan; human cases up 5-fold

Anti-science old guard taking last dying breaths of continuing to misinform physicians using tax payer dollars

Lyme sufferers devastated by federal government’s action plan

Detection of Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, in Blacklegged Ticks Collected in the Grand River Valley, Ontario, Canada

Global Network on Institutional Discrimination: Lyme disease patients denied care and insurance coverage because of missing diagnostic codes

Draft of report to parliament regarding Bill 442 now online and open to public input.

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