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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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Co-infections | For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Research
KSHB TV Kansas: New tick-borne virus discovered after the death of Kansas man
ByCanLyme Team December 18, 2014April 21, 2023
December 17th, 2014 KANSAS CITY, Kan. – A new, never before seen virus has been discovered in Kansas. The CDC is now investigating after the tick-borne illness, dubbed “Bourbon Virus,” was linked to the death of a Kansas man. Up until recently, the man’s death remained a mystery. Now, doctors at the University of Kansas…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Alberta | Voices on Lyme
No concern about why the patient is sick, just that it is not allowed to be Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team December 14, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: “Another month went by and a call was received from the ID specialist in Calgary. We were informed that our appointment was cancelled because as they stated, my wife doesn’t have Lyme.” Once again positive Lyme tests magically became false positive when Infectious Disease doctors became involved. Without seeing the patient they…
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Government reports & letters | International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Bill C-442 is carried as is in Senate. Hear testimony in Canada’s Senate Committee on Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease, as Bill moves forward.
ByCanLyme Team December 10, 2014April 21, 2023
Bill C-442 is carried in the Senate (signed into law with Royal assent Dec. 16th, 2014): Listen to testimony of ; December 3rd, 2014 Elizabeth May, MP (begins after intro’s) Jim Wilson, CanLyme (starts at 17:10 on time-bar) Dr. William Bowie, AMMI, (starts at 17:17 on time-bar) After Dr. Bowie presents it is followed by…
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Research
New Study Provides Hope for Chronic Lyme Disease Sufferers
ByCanLyme Team December 1, 2014April 21, 2023
December 1, 2014 Patients with Lyme disease know that their symptoms and the effects of the disease can be debilitating and last for a long time, often persisting even after treatment. In an effort to help improve quality of life for those patients, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are working…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Nova Scotia | Media | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Listen to Brenda Sterling-Goodwin as she discusses Lyme in Nova Scotia, Canada
ByCanLyme Team November 24, 2014April 21, 2023
All of Nova Scotia is endemic for Lyme disease says Brenda Sterling-Goodwin Brenda Sterling-Goodwin joins us to discuss ticks and Lyme disease. Listen to radio show
Read More Listen to Brenda Sterling-Goodwin as she discusses Lyme in Nova Scotia, Canada
International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | News from CanLyme | Research | Voices on Lyme
Hamilton scientist who discovered cause of Lyme disease dies
ByCanLyme Team November 20, 2014April 21, 2023
November 19, 2014 10:00 pm HAMILTON – To the world, Willy Burgdorfer will always be remembered as the scientist who discovered the cause of Lyme disease. In Hamilton, the former Rocky Mountain Laboratories scientist will be remembered as a patient and kind mentor to the researchers who followed in his footsteps, as well as a community…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
British Columbia, Canada: Tick borne disease was misdiagnosed for two decades
ByCanLyme Team November 14, 2014April 21, 2023
Julie Bertrand / Oceanside Star November 13, 2014 12:00 AM Qualicum Beach resident Sue Aldous discovered she had Lyme disease through a chance encounter in a Surrey grocery store. Aldous had suffered chronic health problems since 1984. She had headaches, frequent insomnia and digestive issues. Because of her poor health, she lost her job, her…
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Co-infections | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
The Borrelia hermsii factor H binding protein FhbA is not required for infectivity in mice or for resistance to human complement in vitro.
ByCanLyme Team November 11, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: Currently, testing and symptomotology knowledge are not nearly accurate enough to distinguish between a human B. hermsii infection and a B.burgdorferi infection yet many people are told they do not have a treatable borreliosis simply because they do not have a positive Borrelia burgdorferi strain B31 when we have many other borrelia, and some we…
Read More The Borrelia hermsii factor H binding protein FhbA is not required for infectivity in mice or for resistance to human complement in vitro.
International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Research
The Mayday Project Responds to Dr. Paul Auwaerter’s Defense of IDSA Guidelines for Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme Team November 10, 2014April 21, 2023
Friday, November 07, 2014 “My office uncovered undisclosed financial interests held by several of the most powerful IDSA panelists. The IDSA’s guideline panel improperly ignored or minimized consideration of alternative medical opinion and evidence regarding chronic Lyme disease, potentially raising serious questions about whether the recommendations reflected all relevant science.” – Connecticut Attorney General Richard…
Read More The Mayday Project Responds to Dr. Paul Auwaerter’s Defense of IDSA Guidelines for Lyme Disease
International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Professor of Microbiology: Lyme is most misunderstood [maligned] disease since AIDS [and far more prevalent]
ByCanLyme Team November 9, 2014April 21, 2023
Holly Ahern 12:08 a.m. EST November 9, 2014 With the possible exception of HIV/AIDS, no infectious disease in recent history has been as misunderstood, maligned or politicized as Lyme disease. After more than two decades of controversy and government neglect, Lyme disease has become too large an issue to ignore any longer. A year…
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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

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

KSHB TV Kansas: New tick-borne virus discovered after the death of Kansas man

No concern about why the patient is sick, just that it is not allowed to be Lyme disease

Bill C-442 is carried as is in Senate. Hear testimony in Canada’s Senate Committee on Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease, as Bill moves forward.

New Study Provides Hope for Chronic Lyme Disease Sufferers

Listen to Brenda Sterling-Goodwin as she discusses Lyme in Nova Scotia, Canada

Hamilton scientist who discovered cause of Lyme disease dies

British Columbia, Canada: Tick borne disease was misdiagnosed for two decades

The Borrelia hermsii factor H binding protein FhbA is not required for infectivity in mice or for resistance to human complement in vitro.

The Mayday Project Responds to Dr. Paul Auwaerter’s Defense of IDSA Guidelines for Lyme Disease

Professor of Microbiology: Lyme is most misunderstood [maligned] disease since AIDS [and far more prevalent]

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