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N.L. woman who beat Lyme disease now researching illness in U.S.
ByCanLyme Team September 13, 2015April 21, 2023
Krista Hewlett forced to quit medical school due to condition A Newfoundland woman who battled Lyme disease for four years is now on the cutting edge of researching the condition in the United States. Krista Hewlett is currently a research associate at a clinic in Connecticut doing integrated medical treatment of Lyme disease. But…
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Forbes: Lyme Deaths From Heart Inflammation Likely Worse Than We Thought
ByCanLyme Team September 7, 2015April 21, 2023
September 4th, 2015 Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections are skyrocketing. In western Pennsylvania, where I work, Lyme increased 25% just between 2013 and 2014, with Butler County having 412 cases and Allegheny County chalking up a record 822 cases last year. And where I vacation, in Maine, the rate of Lyme in 2014 was…
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Tertiary Treponematosis – Lyme Disease, Syphilis, gum disease
ByCanLyme Team September 3, 2015April 21, 2023
Herbert B. Allen*, Maria Hannaway and Suresh Joshi Journal of Clinical & Experimental Dermatology Research Abstract With recent findings in arthritis and dementia, it has become apparent that Lyme treponemes and oral treponemes have tertiary clinical findings similar to tertiary syphilis. The primary findings are in the skin or mucous membranes with syphilis demonstrating a…
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Global TV – Lyme disease tests may not be accurate for some Canadians – Patients worried
ByCanLyme Team September 3, 2015April 21, 2023
[CanLyme Note: The Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada (AMMI) failed to point out that there is no ‘gold standard serology’ for Lyme disease. The only standard is American ‘surveillance criteria’ that were never intended for establishing whether or not to treat clinical cases of Lyme disease. The US surveillance criteria were established in…
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Toronto: Drawings depict horrors of Lyme disease, artist calls for better testing and treatment
ByCanLyme Team September 3, 2015April 21, 2023
written by Bruce Wark Montreal artist Donna Jacobs is hoping her charcoal drawings soon to be on display at The Cabbagetown Arts Festival in Toronto, previously on gallery exhibit at Parrsboro’s Main & Station, July 15th-28th, will raise awareness about the horrors of Lyme disease as well as the urgent need for improved diagnosis…
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Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Research
Ticks are killed in clothes dryer in only 5 minutes new research suggests
ByCanLyme Team September 2, 2015April 21, 2023
Braintree HS graduate continues groundbreaking ticks research By Robert Aicardi baicardi [at] wickedlocal [dot] com Posted Aug. 31, 2015 at 12:30 PM Until now, little research has been conducted about how to cleanse dangerous ticks from clothing by washing or drying it. The federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) office in Fort Collins, Colorado…
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Disease Risk & Landscape Attributes of Tick-Borne Borrelia Pathogens in the San Francisco Bay Area, California
ByCanLyme Team August 28, 2015April 21, 2023
Published: August 19, 2015 – DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134812 Abstract Habitat heterogeneity influences pathogen ecology by affecting vector abundance and the reservoir host communities. We investigated spatial patterns of disease risk for two human pathogens in the Borrelia genus–B. burgdorferi and B. miyamotoi–that are transmitted by the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus. We collected ticks (349 nymphs,…
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Nature.com : Scientists have no shortage of ideas about how to stop tick-borne illnesses. What is holding them back?
ByCanLyme Team August 27, 2015April 21, 2023
Aug. 25th, 2015 Melinda Wenner Moyer The growing global battle against blood-sucking ticks On a balmy day in late June, Scott Williams waits for a white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) to fall asleep. Williams, a wildlife biologist with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, has just transferred the animal from a trap to…
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Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Research
More infected ticks found in Sudbury area
ByCanLyme Team August 26, 2015April 21, 2023
By Jim Moodie, The Sudbury Star, August 26th, 2015 The city is experiencing a minor rash of Lyme-carrying ticks, any one of which could cause a major rash to form on the skin of an infected person. On Tuesday, the Sudbury and District Health Unit reported two blacklegged ticks had tested positive for the Lyme disease…
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Return on Investment Slipping in Biomedical Research
ByCanLyme Team August 24, 2015April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: Medical research should be of the highest standard of all research, but in many cases the opposite is true. A good example is the Infectious Disease Society of America and their published material. Much of it is no more than opinion, not reproducible, and certainly not worthy of publication yet they get broad coverage…
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Winnipegger traveled to New York for Lyme disease treatment
ByCanLyme Team August 24, 2015April 21, 2023
Meghan Roberts, CTV Winnipeg Published Sunday, August 23, 2015 9:23PM CST A Winnipeg man says he travelled to New York State to get treatment for his chronic Lyme disease. Richard Underwood joined the Canadian Forces in 2007 as a teen. He believes that’s when he contracted the disease. Black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks,…
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The Scientist: The Search for Persisters
ByCanLyme Team August 12, 2015April 21, 2023
It starts with a tick bite. This may be followed by the characteristic bullseye rash. And then the other symptoms of Lyme disease appear. Fever, fatigue, body aches, and headaches can all set in. For most patients diagnosed with Lyme disease, the symptoms fade as the infection is cleared following a course of antibiotics. But…
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Schizophrenia Differential Diagnoses
ByCanLyme Team August 12, 2015April 21, 2023
Diagnostic Considerations – Other psychiatric illnesses – Anatomic lesions – Metabolic illnesses – Endocrine disordersInfectious illnesses – Miscellaneous disorders – Vitamin deficiency …”Many infectious illnesses, such as influenza, Lyme disease, hepatitis C, and any of the encephalitides (particularly those caused by the herpesviruses), can cause mental status changes such as depression, anxiety, irritability, or…
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Undiagnosed Lyme disease in adults with schizophrenia.
ByCanLyme Team August 12, 2015April 21, 2023
Published online Aug. 6th, 2015 ABSTRACT Lyme disease (LD) is the world’s leading tick borne infection caused by the spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb). This infection is a global health concern and is associated with numerous cardiologic, dermatologic, rheumatologic neurologic, and psychiatric manifestations (Bratton et al., 2008). Only a few epidemiologic studies have evaluated the frequency…
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Entomological Society of America Issues Statement on Tick-borne Diseases
ByCanLyme Team August 11, 2015April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: CanLyme has no evidence to support the insinuation of the Entomological Society of America in the last sentence of their statement that there may have been “intentional” introduction of tick-borne diseases.] July 29th, 2015 The Entomological Society of America (ESA) strongly supports building a national strategy using Integrated Tick Management (ITM) to better control…
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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

N.L. woman who beat Lyme disease now researching illness in U.S.

Forbes: Lyme Deaths From Heart Inflammation Likely Worse Than We Thought

Tertiary Treponematosis – Lyme Disease, Syphilis, gum disease

Global TV – Lyme disease tests may not be accurate for some Canadians – Patients worried

Toronto: Drawings depict horrors of Lyme disease, artist calls for better testing and treatment

Ticks are killed in clothes dryer in only 5 minutes new research suggests

Disease Risk & Landscape Attributes of Tick-Borne Borrelia Pathogens in the San Francisco Bay Area, California

Nature.com : Scientists have no shortage of ideas about how to stop tick-borne illnesses. What is holding them back?

More infected ticks found in Sudbury area

Return on Investment Slipping in Biomedical Research

Winnipegger traveled to New York for Lyme disease treatment

The Scientist: The Search for Persisters

Schizophrenia Differential Diagnoses

Undiagnosed Lyme disease in adults with schizophrenia.

Entomological Society of America Issues Statement on Tick-borne Diseases

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