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Health Care Costs, Utilization and Patterns of Care following Lyme Disease [1.3 billion USD]
ByCanLyme Team February 6, 2015April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: This study has limitations as noted therein and does not include cost of taxpayer funded disability income payments to the chronically ill, loss of taxable income from those who are unable to work, loss of productivity in the employment sector, along with other indirect costs to society and the taxpayer. It also does…
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Co-infections | International News | Lyme Controversy | Voices on Lyme
Australia: Researcher calls for action after those suffering Lyme Disease head abroad…
ByCanLyme Team January 30, 2015April 21, 2023
A TURRAMURRA researcher is calling on the medical fraternity to advocate for recognition of Lyme disease in Australia, both for treatment and insurance purposes. Mualla McManus’s call follows an appeal from tick bite victim and East Lindfield teen Francesca Wallis who is trying to raise $30,000 for Lyme disease treatment at a German clinic, as the…
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Government reports & letters | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Alberta | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Alberta, Canada : Rowe [MLA] wants provincewide strategy to fight Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team January 27, 2015April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: It says in the article that 70-80% of people who contract Lyme disease will develop a rash. That is untrue. Current research indicates that only a small subset of the Lyme bacteria Borrelia will cause a rash of any kind.] January 27th, 2015, by Doug Collie Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Conservative MLA Bruce Rowe says now…
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Featured | For Physicians | Medical Publications | Research
Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases: global challenges in the context of a public health threat
ByCanLyme Team January 23, 2015April 21, 2023
Christian Perronne c [dot] perronne [at] rpc [dot] aphp [dot] fr Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by ticks, was initially considered a recent, rare and regional occurrence. We now have evidence that very similar bacteria infected humans in Europe during the ice age (Keller et al.,2012). Evidence-based data are scarce therefore many aspects of the disease remain controversial…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Ontario woman battling Lyme disease forced to seek treatment in U.S.
ByCanLyme Team January 22, 2015April 21, 2023
SIMCOE, Ont. — A Simcoe woman living with Lyme disease is heading to the U.S. for help. Caley Barber will have a friend drive her to Plattsburgh, N.Y., to meet a doctor and hopefully start the long-term course of antibiotics she needs to get better — at her own expense. Barber’s predicament is common for…
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Medical Publications | Research
Effects of Borrelia on host immune system: Possible consequences for diagnostics – Advances in Integrative Medicine
ByCanLyme Team January 22, 2015April 21, 2023
Mualla McManus Corresponding author Ann Cincotta Abstract Borreliosis, Lyme disease, is the fastest growing tick borne infection in the world. Annually 300,000 (0.094%) people are diagnosed in the USA. Objective To clarify and aid in the understanding of the indirect diagnostics of Borreliosis in the light of immune dysfunction. Diagnosis is difficult not only due…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
The New Yorker: A New Front in the Lyme Wars [a very balanced well written article]
ByCanLyme Team January 15, 2015April 21, 2023
By Michael Specter On December 15th, without much ceremony or public comment, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law that has the potential to change the way medicine in New York is practiced. Frequently referred to as the Lyme Doctor Protection Act, the law prohibits the state board of medicine from investigating complaints of substandard care…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Tick-borne pathogens and the vector potential of ticks in China
ByCanLyme Team January 14, 2015April 21, 2023
*Corresponding author: Jingze Liu jzliu21 [at] heinfo [dot] net Parasites & Vectors 2015, 8:24 doi:10.1186/s13071-014-0628-x Published: 14 January 2015 Ticks, as obligate blood-sucking ectoparasites, attack a broad range of vertebrates and transmit a great diversity of pathogenic microorganisms. They are considered second only to mosquitoes as vectors of human disease, and the most important vector of…
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Featured | International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
TOUCHED BY LYME: CDC fires another salvo against “chronic Lyme”
ByCanLyme Team January 14, 2015April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: There are no human tests for many of the borrelia species of bacteria that cause Lyme disease, yet they have perhaps convinced this poor gentleman he did not have Lyme disease. There is nothing in what they have reported that would rule out Lyme disease… so why is a government agency so willing…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Alberta | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Cochrane Eagle newspaper’s Lyme borreliosis articles received first place in most read articles
ByCanLyme Team January 1, 2015April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: This is another indication that the Canadian public wants to know more about why Lyme borreliosis is not being recognized by mainstream medicine when the evidence is clear, this is a global pandemic numbering in the millions of cases of chronic disability in the past decades.] The Eagle’s Top 3 viewed stories online for…
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International News | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Lyme [borreliosis] Helps Spread Other Tick Infections
ByCanLyme Team January 1, 2015April 21, 2023
December 31, 2014 By Christopher Intagliata – Scientific American Mice infected with Lyme and the Babesia parasite are more likely to pass on babesiosis than mice infected with babesiosis alone. Christopher Intagliata reports Lyme disease may be the most well known illness spread by ticks. But it’s far from the only one. The most common…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Bill C-442 opens talks on Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team January 1, 2015April 21, 2023
December 31, 2014 Belleville News By Diane Sherman Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, introduced Bill C-442, June 2012, to stimulate debate about prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and research on Lyme disease, a disease caused by insect bites, primarily ticks. December 16 the bill became law: An Act respecting a Federal…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Lyme disease debate leaves family without answers
ByCanLyme Team December 29, 2014April 21, 2023
Chiara Davide, 22, has been sick for seven years with no diagnosis. Was a positive Lyme disease test result from the U.S. the answer, or false hope? By: Lauren Pelley Staff Reporter, Published on Sat Dec 27 2014 Chiara Davide is sitting in a wheelchair at her family’s home in North York, frozen in place….
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Expanded Study Confirms that Lyme Disease May Be Sexually Transmitted
ByCanLyme Team December 19, 2014April 21, 2023
San Francisco, California (PRWEB) December 19, 2014 An expanded study confirms that Lyme disease may be sexually transmitted. The study was published in the open access journal F1000Research (https://f1000research.com/articles/3-309/v1). Lyme disease is a tickborne infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a type of corkscrew-shaped bacteria known as a spirochete (pronounced spiro’keet). The Lyme spirochete resembles the…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Alberta | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Cochrane, Alberta: Bill C-442 leaves Lyme sufferers hopeful for change
ByCanLyme Team December 19, 2014April 21, 2023
Thursday, Dec 18, 2014 06:00 am By: Lindsay Seewalt Last May, the Eagle ran a story on the controversies surrounding Lyme disease and diagnosis and Chronic Lyme Disease (CLD) – the disease caused by infected ticks, largely spread by migratory birds, which is said to turn into CLD when overlooked and misdiagnosed. The story…
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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

Health Care Costs, Utilization and Patterns of Care following Lyme Disease [1.3 billion USD]

Australia: Researcher calls for action after those suffering Lyme Disease head abroad…

Alberta, Canada : Rowe [MLA] wants provincewide strategy to fight Lyme disease

Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases: global challenges in the context of a public health threat

Ontario woman battling Lyme disease forced to seek treatment in U.S.

Effects of Borrelia on host immune system: Possible consequences for diagnostics – Advances in Integrative Medicine

The New Yorker: A New Front in the Lyme Wars [a very balanced well written article]

Tick-borne pathogens and the vector potential of ticks in China

TOUCHED BY LYME: CDC fires another salvo against “chronic Lyme”

Cochrane Eagle newspaper’s Lyme borreliosis articles received first place in most read articles

Lyme [borreliosis] Helps Spread Other Tick Infections

Bill C-442 opens talks on Lyme disease

Lyme disease debate leaves family without answers

Expanded Study Confirms that Lyme Disease May Be Sexually Transmitted

Cochrane, Alberta: Bill C-442 leaves Lyme sufferers hopeful for change

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