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Climate change brings Lyme disease to Canada
ByCanLyme Team November 2, 2014April 21, 2023
by GAIL JOHNSON on OCT 29, 2014 JIM WILSON, FOUNDER of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme) was in an Ottawa hotel room, in lockdown, with his curtains drawn when the Georgia Straight caught up with him. It was October 22, that terrible day of the shootings at Parliament; Wilson had flown from B.C. to…
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Great Britain: Woman left with paralysed face after tick bite in her own garden
ByCanLyme Team October 31, 2014April 21, 2023
Oct 31, 2014 A woman was left with a paralysed face after being bitten on the thigh by ticks. Claire Dean, 43, got Lyme disease after being bitten – and it has left her with Bell’s palsy and chronic fatigue syndrome. The mum of two told the Daily Record: “My face is still paralysed and…
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Australia: Pittwater Council asks residents to pull out your bag of ticks
ByCanLyme Team October 31, 2014April 21, 2023
CAYLA DENGATE, MANLY DAILY, NOVEMBER 01, 2014 12:01AM While ticks are usually best avoided, Pittwater Council is extending a request from Sydney University to ask residents to keep and freeze the little crawlers. The university is currently three years into a national study into pathogens in ticks, and research fellow Ann Mitrovic said the northern beaches was…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Lyme Carditis Can Cause Sudden Cardiac Death
ByCanLyme Team October 31, 2014April 21, 2023
[ CanLyme note: This report underlines what patients and their concerned physicians have known for years and have tried to report. We disagree with this quote in the article, “Health care providers should consider as a cause of cardiac symptoms in patients who live in or have visited a high-incidence Lyme disease region, especially during summer…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Voices on Lyme
Lyme sufferers struggle for diagnosis, treatment
ByCanLyme Team October 29, 2014April 21, 2023
Robert Mangelsdorf – Westender October 29, 2014 It started as an odd twitch in her bicep, then a tingling numbness in her face. Soon, Kitsilano mother Susan Schirk’s toes began cramping up so severely, she couldn’t unclench them. Then the cramping spread to her arms. “I couldn’t hold up a blowdryer,” she says. “I would wash…
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Medical Publications | Research
A Unique Case of Adolescent Neuroborreliosis Presenting with Multiple Cranial Neuritis and Cochlear Inflammation on Magnetic Resonance Imaging
ByCanLyme Team October 28, 2014April 21, 2023
Abstract Background Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, and is caused by infection with the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. In children, neuroborreliosis usually presents as peripheral facial nerve palsy and lymphocytic meningitis, and only rarely is associated with cranial polyneuritis. Case We present a 15 year-old with tinnitus, hearing…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Intracellular Borrelia Spirochaetes Reproduce Inside Erythrocytes
ByCanLyme Team October 20, 2014April 21, 2023
Intracellular Borrelia Spirochaetes Reproduce Inside Erythrocytes The experiment adds to previous work showing borrelia spirochaete invasion of erythrocytes(1). It provides video evidence that the spirochaetes continue their development within the cell. Materials and methods The medium to hold blood cells stable on a microscope slide mini-culture was prepared as: Watch Videos, Access Paper
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Global TV: Lyme disease researcher looks to support groups for information
ByCanLyme Team October 20, 2014April 21, 2023
By Brion Robinson SACKVILLE, N.B. – A Mount Allison University professor says Lyme disease support groups could hold important information about improving treatment in Canada. Dr. Vett Lloyd has been tracking ticks infected with the disease for years and says many people who are infected are forced to seek help in the United States. That means…
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Medical Publications | Research
Assessing the Contribution of Songbirds to the Movement of Ticks and /Borrelia burgdorferi/ in the Midwestern United States During Fall Migration
ByCanLyme Team October 19, 2014April 21, 2023
Abstract: The geographic distributions of Ixodes scapularis (black-legged tick) and the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (the causative agent of Lyme disease) are expanding in the USA. To assess the role of migratory songbirds in the spread of this tick and pathogen, we captured passerines in central Illinois during the fall of 2012. We compared forested sites…
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Medical Publications | Research
MyD88- and TRIF-independent induction of type I interferon drives naive B cell accumulation but not loss of lymph node architecture in Lyme disease.
ByCanLyme Team October 19, 2014April 21, 2023
Hastey CJ, Ochoa J, Olsen KJ, Barthold SW, Baumgarth N. Abstract Rapidly after infection, live Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, is found within lymph nodes, causing rapid and strong tissue enlargement, a loss of demarcation between B cell follicles and T cell zones, and an unusually large accumulation of B cells. We…
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Medical Publications | Research
The Western Progression of Lyme Disease: Infectious and Non-clonal Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato Populations in Grand Forks County, North Dakota.
ByCanLyme Team October 19, 2014April 21, 2023
ABSTRACT Scant attention has been paid to Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, Ixodes scapularis, or reservoirs in eastern North Dakota despite bordering high-risk counties in Minnesota. Recent reports of B. burgdorferi and I. scapularis in North Dakota, however, prompted a more detailed examination. Spirochetes cultured from the hearts of five rodents trapped in Grand Forks…
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Medical Publications | Research
Regional Seroreactivity and Vector-Borne Disease Co-Exposures in Dogs in the United States from 2004–2010: Utility of Canine Surveillance
ByCanLyme Team October 19, 2014April 21, 2023
Yancey Caroline B., Hegarty Barbara C., Qurollo Barbara A., Levy Michael G., Birkenheuer Adam J., Weber David J., Diniz Pedro P.V.P., and Breitschwerdt Edward B. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. October 2014, 14(10): 724-732. doi:10.1089/vbz.2014.1592. Published in Volume: 14 Issue 10: October 17, 2014 Correspondence to: E-mail: cbyancey [at] hotmail [dot] com ABSTRACT Vector-borne disease (VBD) pathogens…
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Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Chronic neuroborreliosis by B. garinii: an unusual case presenting with epilepsy and multifocal brain MRI lesions
ByCanLyme Team October 15, 2014April 21, 2023
Giovanni Matera, et al NEW MICROBIOLOGICA, 37, 393-397, 2014 Late/chronic Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) represents a challenging entity whose diagnosis requires a combination of clinical and laboratory findings, surrounded by much controversy. Here we describe a patient who had a peculiar form of late LNB with CNS lesions shown by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and epileptic…
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Medical Publications | Research
A phylogenomic and molecular marker based proposal for the division of the genus Borrelia into two genera: the emended genus Borrelia containing only the members of the relapsing fever Borrelia, and the genus Borreliella gen. nov. containing the members of the Lyme disease Borrelia (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex).
ByCanLyme Team October 11, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: What patients are suffering from is a borreliosis. They do not care if science has found a way to separate Borrelia into groups; the diagnosis is being missed and current human testing is terrible.] Adeolu M, Gupta RS Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 2014 Jun;105(6):1049-72. Abstract The genus Borrelia contains two groups of organisms: the causative agents…
Read More A phylogenomic and molecular marker based proposal for the division of the genus Borrelia into two genera: the emended genus Borrelia containing only the members of the relapsing fever Borrelia, and the genus Borreliella gen. nov. containing the members of the Lyme disease Borrelia (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex).
International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous
Please take the Lyme Sucks challenge!!
ByCanLyme Team October 6, 2014April 21, 2023
The Lyme Sucks Challenge: 1. Cut a lime in half (share it with a friend, or your favorite kid) and take a video of you sucking the lime dry 2. In your video, nominate 3 friends to take the Lyme Sucks Challenge & tag them when you post your video 3. Post your video…
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News and updates

Announcing the second annual Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference

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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

Climate change brings Lyme disease to Canada

Great Britain: Woman left with paralysed face after tick bite in her own garden

Australia: Pittwater Council asks residents to pull out your bag of ticks

Lyme Carditis Can Cause Sudden Cardiac Death

Lyme sufferers struggle for diagnosis, treatment

A Unique Case of Adolescent Neuroborreliosis Presenting with Multiple Cranial Neuritis and Cochlear Inflammation on Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Intracellular Borrelia Spirochaetes Reproduce Inside Erythrocytes

Global TV: Lyme disease researcher looks to support groups for information

Assessing the Contribution of Songbirds to the Movement of Ticks and /Borrelia burgdorferi/ in the Midwestern United States During Fall Migration

MyD88- and TRIF-independent induction of type I interferon drives naive B cell accumulation but not loss of lymph node architecture in Lyme disease.

The Western Progression of Lyme Disease: Infectious and Non-clonal Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato Populations in Grand Forks County, North Dakota.

Regional Seroreactivity and Vector-Borne Disease Co-Exposures in Dogs in the United States from 2004–2010: Utility of Canine Surveillance

Chronic neuroborreliosis by B. garinii: an unusual case presenting with epilepsy and multifocal brain MRI lesions

Please take the Lyme Sucks challenge!!

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