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Lyme Sucks Challenge continues: CanLyme founder’s brother and daughter make their challenges.
ByCanLyme Team April 24, 2015April 21, 2023
On April 24th, 2015, the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation’s founder, Jim Wilson, was proud to have his brother, John Wilson, and oldest daughter Candra Wilson make their challenges to others to take the Lyme Sucks Challenge in the effort to raise awareness of the disease, and increase funding for a very necessary and long overdue…
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Co-infections | International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Pamela Weintraub answers: Why do doctors keep fighting about Lyme Disease?
ByCanLyme Team April 24, 2015April 21, 2023
Because the patients are contested “They immediately may send the patient to test for all manner of serious immune and neurologic disease, not realizing that Lyme disease itself may cause profound immune and neurologic conditions if it is not treated at once.” Read full article
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Updates
Case study: Tick-borne disease babesiosis passed from mother to fetus.
ByCanLyme April 24, 2015May 12, 2023
Nickolas D. Surra, MD, John E. Jesus, MD Christiana Care Health Center, Newark, Delaware Published Online: April 18, 2015 Abstract Background Babesiosis is a tick-borne, protozoal disease seen primarily in the northeastern and northern Midwest portions of the United States. It is primarily transmitted through the bite of the Ixodes scapularis tick and may cause hemolysis….
Read More Case study: Tick-borne disease babesiosis passed from mother to fetus.
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Case report: Mother to fetus transmission of Babesia, a tick-borne infection
ByCanLyme Team April 23, 2015April 21, 2023
The Anemic and Thrombocytopenic Febrile Neonate Nickolas D. Surra, MD, John E. Jesus, MD Christiana Care Health Center, Newark, Delaware Published Online: April 18, 2015 Abstract Background Babesiosis is a tick-borne, protozoal disease seen primarily in the northeastern and northern Midwest portions of the United States. It is primarily transmitted through the bite of the…
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Press Release: CROSS CANADA BIKE RIDE FOR LYME DISEASE
ByCanLyme Team April 21, 2015April 21, 2023
St. CATHARINES, ON – APRIL 15, 2015 – At sunrise on May 11, 2015, Niagara natives, 22 year old Daniel Corso and his long time friend Tanner Cookson will begin their 8000 km bike ride across Canada to bring awareness to, and raise money for, Lyme disease. The ride begins in Victoria, BC at the…
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International News | Miscellaneous | Research
Squirrels ‘host Lyme disease bugs’
ByCanLyme Team April 21, 2015April 21, 2023
Tuesday 21 April 2015 Grey squirrels are in the dock again – this time for harbouring a serious infection that can be spread to humans by ticks. The American immigrant rodents already have previous convictions for decimating native red squirrel populations and damaging woodland by stripping bark from trees. Grey squirrels host the bacteria responsible…
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For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Lyme Patient Advocates Denounce Intellectual Conflicts of Interest for Seven IDSA Guidelines Review Panelists
ByCanLyme Team April 21, 2015April 21, 2023
Arlington, VA – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 The Mayday Project–a volunteer organization comprised of those touched by Lyme disease–wants to know the answer to the question: How can certain members of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) review panel, those with entrenched intellectual conflicts of interest, be trusted to revise the guidelines…
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Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Research
Relying on a negative Lyme test can prove deadly. Dr. Dan Cameron
ByCanLyme Team April 21, 2015April 21, 2023
In August of 2013, a 17-year-old boy died suddenly from cardiac arrest. Initially, health officials blamed the Powassan virus for his death. But a recent report in Cardiovascular Pathologist finds that Joseph Elone, from Poughkeepsie, died from Lyme carditis. It was not a rare virus but Lyme disease that claimed the young man’s life. Read…
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MacLean’s Magazine: Could Canada cause multiple sclerosis?
ByCanLyme Team April 21, 2015April 21, 2023
[CanLyme Note: Many decades of research, prior to MS being too simply labeled an ‘autoimmune’ disease, showed convincingly that spirochetal (spirochaetal) bacteria, like Lyme disease bacteria, played a significant role in the disease process. Is all MS Lyme disease? Likely not, but much of it may be a misdiagnosed, untreated, mistreated Lyme disease or other spirochetal…
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Miscellaneous
LYME AND MS HAVING THE SAME ETIOLOGY – Kathy Cavert
ByCanLyme Team April 21, 2015April 21, 2023
LYME AND MS HAVING THE SAME ETIOLOGY From: jwissmille [at] aol [dot] com (JWissmille) Newsgroups: sci.med.diseases.lyme Subject: MS or Lyme from the archives NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder07.news.aol.com X-Admin: news [at] aol [dot] com Date: 30 Jun 1999 19:44:26 GMT Organization: AOL https://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19990630154426 [dot] 23870 [dot] 00002412 [at] ng-fj1 [dot] aol [dot] com> Xref: news.gmd.de sci.med.diseases.lyme:50155…
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Search and Rescue respond to RCMP’s Challenge taking up the Lyme Sucks Challenge – see who they challenge
ByCanLyme Team April 21, 2015April 21, 2023
Lyme Sucks Challenge 2015 PENSAR is proud to respond to the Penticton RCMP’s Lyme Sucks Challenge and we’ve gone ahead and challenged a few other amazing organizations while we were a… Watch Video
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Watch excellent video on the life and feeding cycle of ticks
ByCanLyme Team April 20, 2015April 21, 2023
This video is full of good information on how ticks successfully infect people and other animals with diseases. Although they discuss this in the context of Tick Borne Encephalitis (TBE), this also applies to Lyme Disease (a borreliosis caused by many strains of Borrelia).
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Shaw TV’s ‘Go Okanagan’ looks at Lyme Disease, and patients stories as they prepare for the Lyme Sucks Challenge
ByCanLyme Team April 19, 2015April 21, 2023
Lyme disease is becoming more and more prevalent throughout Canada, North America and around the globe. It can be easily treated if caught early, or it can be life altering and life threatening if not caught early. Patients discuss their Lyme and then promote the Lyme Sucks Challenge to raise awareness and research dollars. #lymesuckschallenge
Read More Shaw TV’s ‘Go Okanagan’ looks at Lyme Disease, and patients stories as they prepare for the Lyme Sucks Challenge
Co-infections | International News | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Health officials ramp up tick monitoring for Powassan Virus
ByCanLyme Team April 17, 2015April 21, 2023
CityNews reporter Andrea Piunno with what health officials are doing to protect you and what you should watch out for. Public Health Ontario says they are monitoring ticks for Powsassan Virus… when did they start? What are the results? What methodology are they using to test? What guidelines are doctors to follow to look for…
Read More Health officials ramp up tick monitoring for Powassan Virus
Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Media | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Global TV: Penticton firefighters take bite out of Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team April 17, 2015April 21, 2023
PENTICTON – The Lyme Sucks Challenge #lymesuckschallenge may be the next social media craze, at least that’s what Penticton resident Sue McDougall is hoping. The challenge involves sucking on a lime and broadcasting it on social media. McDougall is passionately involved in this challenge because she has been living with Lyme disease for more than…
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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

Lyme Sucks Challenge continues: CanLyme founder’s brother and daughter make their challenges.

Pamela Weintraub answers: Why do doctors keep fighting about Lyme Disease?

Case study: Tick-borne disease babesiosis passed from mother to fetus.

Case report: Mother to fetus transmission of Babesia, a tick-borne infection

Press Release: CROSS CANADA BIKE RIDE FOR LYME DISEASE

Squirrels ‘host Lyme disease bugs’

Lyme Patient Advocates Denounce Intellectual Conflicts of Interest for Seven IDSA Guidelines Review Panelists

Relying on a negative Lyme test can prove deadly. Dr. Dan Cameron

MacLean’s Magazine: Could Canada cause multiple sclerosis?

LYME AND MS HAVING THE SAME ETIOLOGY – Kathy Cavert

Search and Rescue respond to RCMP’s Challenge taking up the Lyme Sucks Challenge – see who they challenge

Watch excellent video on the life and feeding cycle of ticks

Shaw TV’s ‘Go Okanagan’ looks at Lyme Disease, and patients stories as they prepare for the Lyme Sucks Challenge

Health officials ramp up tick monitoring for Powassan Virus

Global TV: Penticton firefighters take bite out of Lyme disease

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