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Relapsing Fever Group Borrelia in Southern California Rodents
ByCanLyme Team September 30, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: Lyme disease is a borreliosis, caused by many strains/species of Borrelia. Relapsing fever is simply strain related Lyme disease (borreliosis)] Journal of Medical Entomology 51(5):1029-1034. 2014 Nathan C. Nieto and Mike B. Teglas ABSTRACT Wild rodent reservoir host species were surveyed prospectively for infection with Borrelia hermsii, the causative agent of tick-borne relapsing fever in the…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Media | Miscellaneous
Global TV, Toronto: The move to ‘active surveillance’ to fight Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team September 30, 2014April 21, 2023
Near Kingston, ON- For the first time Kingston, Frontenac and Lennon & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health Region is taking matters into its own hands by dragging for ticks, or ‘active surveillance.’ “Lyme disease has become established now in Eastern Ontario. This was not a concern 10 years ago and now it is a health concern,” said…
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Co-infections | International News | Lyme Controversy | Media | Miscellaneous
Scientific American: Tick-Borne Diseases on the Rise, Thanks to Global Warming
ByCanLyme Team September 25, 2014April 21, 2023
Lyme disease is bad enough. But it’s just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases ticks transmit, public health officials are finding Sep 24, 2014 | By Marianne Lavelle and The Daily Climate Ticks that spread Lyme disease don’t always deliver their misery neat. They can serve up a cocktail of pathogens with one infectious bite….
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Lyme in Alberta | Lyme in New Brunswick | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Scientific American: Lyme Disease Surges North
ByCanLyme Team September 25, 2014April 21, 2023
One of the clearest signs of health risks in a warming world has emerged in one of the world’s most advanced economies, as Canada belatedly struggles to cope with Lyme disease’s migration in North America Sep 24, 2014 | By Marianne Lavelle and The Daily Climate Vett Lloyd saved the tick that latched onto her while she was…
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Lyme Controversy | Media | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Health Canada’s new Lyme disease plan: You act, we’ll watch
ByCanLyme Team September 25, 2014April 21, 2023
Canada is under pressure to show leadership as Lyme spreads, but its ‘action plan’ shows it’s out of touch Anne Kingston July 30th, 2014 The term “litterbug” was popularized in the 1950s in public service announcements produced by Keep America Beautiful, a non-profit composed of government agencies, citizens, and corporations–Philip Morris, Anheuser-Busch and Coca-Cola, among them….
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Government | Government reports & letters | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | News from CanLyme
Canada’s Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease passes 2nd reading in the senate.
ByCanLyme Team September 20, 2014April 21, 2023
Second Reading–Debate Adjourned Hon. Janis G. Johnson moved second reading of Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease. She said: Honourable senators, it is a great honour to address Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease. I thank Elizabeth May, member of Parliament, for asking me to…
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For Physicians | Medical Publications
Richard Gunderman, MD – How to Discourage a Doctor
ByCanLyme Team September 20, 2014April 21, 2023
Not accustomed to visiting hospital executive suites, I took my seat in the waiting room somewhat warily. Seated across from me was a handsome man in a well-tailored three-piece suit, whose thoroughly professional appearance made me – in my rumpled white coat, sheaves of dog-eared paper bulging from both pockets – feel out of place. Within…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes Ticks in Europe and the United States
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2014April 21, 2023
Chris D. Crowder, Heather E. Carolan, Megan A. Rounds, Vaclav Honig, Benedikt Mothes, Heike Haag, Oliver Nolte, Ben J. Luft, Libor Grubhoffer, David J. Ecker, Steven E. Schutzer, and Mark W. Eshoo AbstractBorrelia miyamotoi, a relapsing fever-related spirochete transmitted by Ixodes ticks, has been recently shown to be a human pathogen. To characterize the prevalence…
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Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Ottawa, Canada: Lyme disease can’t keep Manotick baker down
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2014April 21, 2023
Manotick News By Emma Jackson Veronique Ayling has been dreaming of her own cupcake shop for the better part of a decade. The Greely resident grew up in the Laurentians baking with her grandmother, but instead of opening her own shop she joined the Canadian Armed Forces, where she works in its investigations unit. But…
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Co-infections | Featured | Research
Tick Paralysis in a Snowshoe Hare by Ixodes pacificus Ticks in British Columbia, Canada
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2014April 21, 2023
J Veter Sci MedAugust 2014 Volume 2 Issue 2 August 29, 2014 AbstractWe provide the first reported case of tick paralysis in a wildlife animal caused by the western blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls. Six I. pacificus females and one male were collected from a feral Snowshoe Hare roaming the coastal area of southwestern British Columbia, Canada….
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Co-infections | Research
Spotted fever group rickettsiae in multiple hard tick species from Fairfax County, Virginia.
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2014April 21, 2023
Henning TC, Orr JM, Smith JD, Arias JR, Norris DE. The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore, Maryland. Abstract Spotted fever group rickettsiosis (SFGR) is a potentially fatal disease that has displayed increasing incidence in the United States in recent years. The most…
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Research
Invariant natural killer T cells act as an extravascular cytotoxic barrier for joint-invading Lyme Borrelia
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2014April 21, 2023
Maria-Jesus Sanz, Connie H. Y. Wong, Pierre-Olivier Hardy, Aydan Salman-Dilgimen, Tara J. Moriart, George Chaconas, Adriana Marques, Roman Krawetz, Christopher H. Mody, Paul Kubes Abstract CXCR6-GFP+ cells, which encompass 70% invariant natural killer T cells (iNKT cells), have been found primarily patrolling inside blood vessels in the liver. Although the iNKT cells fail to interact with…
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Co-infections | Medical Publications | Research
A seroepidemiologic study of human infections with spotted fever group rickettsiae in North Carolina
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2014April 21, 2023
Meagan F. Vaughn et al, September 2014, doi:10.1128/JCM.01733-14 ABSTRACT Increasing entomologic and epidemiologic evidence suggests that spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFGR) other than Rickettsia rickettsii are responsible for spotted fever rickettsioses in the US. A retrospective seroepidemiologic study was conducted on stored acute and convalescent sera that had been submitted for Rocky Mountain spotted fever testing to…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Remarkable diversity of tick or mammalian-associated Borreliae in the metropolitan San Francisco Bay Area, California
ByCanLyme Team September 12, 2014April 21, 2023
Natalia Fedorova, Joyce E. Kleinjan, David James, Lucia T. Hui, Hans Peeters, Robert S. Lane Abstract The diversity of Lyme disease (LD) and relapsing fever (RF)-group spirochetes in the metropolitan San Francisco Bay area in northern California is poorly understood. We tested Ixodes pacificus, I. spinipalpis, and small mammals for presence of borreliae in Alameda…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Miscellaneous
Lyme disease patient handed hefty FOI bill
ByCanLyme Team September 9, 2014April 21, 2023
Vancouver, BC, Canada / (CKNW AM) AM980 Shane Woodford September 08, 2014 08:24 pm A woman suffering from Lyme disease had to turn to crowd funding to figure out why a BC government effort to treat the disease has gone off the rails. Gwen Barlee says the province opened a special clinic in 2013…
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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

Relapsing Fever Group Borrelia in Southern California Rodents

Global TV, Toronto: The move to ‘active surveillance’ to fight Lyme disease

Scientific American: Tick-Borne Diseases on the Rise, Thanks to Global Warming

Scientific American: Lyme Disease Surges North

Health Canada’s new Lyme disease plan: You act, we’ll watch

Canada’s Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease passes 2nd reading in the senate.

Richard Gunderman, MD – How to Discourage a Doctor

Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes Ticks in Europe and the United States

Ottawa, Canada: Lyme disease can’t keep Manotick baker down

Tick Paralysis in a Snowshoe Hare by Ixodes pacificus Ticks in British Columbia, Canada

Spotted fever group rickettsiae in multiple hard tick species from Fairfax County, Virginia.

Invariant natural killer T cells act as an extravascular cytotoxic barrier for joint-invading Lyme Borrelia

A seroepidemiologic study of human infections with spotted fever group rickettsiae in North Carolina

Remarkable diversity of tick or mammalian-associated Borreliae in the metropolitan San Francisco Bay Area, California

Lyme disease patient handed hefty FOI bill

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