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Canadian Living – What you need to know about Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme Team July 22, 2014April 21, 2023
What are the common Lyme disease symptoms? How do you get it? We answer all of your questions about this serious infection and share the latest research. By Jane Doucet Lyme disease is a serious illness that’s on the rise in Canada, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. Those at risk include anyone who…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Gripping speech by husband of Lyme Disease victim – strong condemnation of Canadian health care
ByCanLyme Team July 8, 2014April 21, 2023
In June 2014 A Lyme Disease awareness presentation was offered to the public in scenic Sechelt, BC Listen now.
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Orillia OPP detective remains baffled by her disease
ByCanLyme Team July 6, 2014April 21, 2023
By Sara Carson, Orillia Packet & Times Thursday, July 3, 2014 8:56:46 EDT PM Kathleen Menard is a detective at the Orillia OPP Headquarters and for three months was stumped by her own mystery. In December 2013, Menard, 39, started to feel strange. Her feet tingled, she experienced bouts of dizziness and had a hard time…
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International News | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Beating Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme Team July 6, 2014April 21, 2023
By Pamela Weintraub July/August 2014 Katina Makris was living her dream when life derailed. A natural-medicine practitioner with a flourishing career, she had a passionate marriage, a young son she doted on, and a home she had lovingly restored in the New Hampshire woods. But slowly she began to slip. First, in June 2000,…
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Medical Publications
Identification of novel activity against Borrelia burgdorferi persisters using an FDA approved drug library
ByCanLyme Team July 4, 2014April 21, 2023
Jie Feng1, Ting Wang1, Wanliang Shi1, Shuo Zhang1, David Sullivan1, Paul G Auwaerter2 and Ying Zhang1 1Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA 2Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA Correspondence: Y Zhang, E-mail: yzhang…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Alberta | Miscellaneous
Edmonton, Canada : Ticks crawl north, bringing threat of Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme Team June 22, 2014April 21, 2023
What you need to know to protect yourself BY FIONA BUCHANAN, EDMONTON JOURNAL JUNE 17, 2014 EDMONTON – They are so small you may not even see them, but they can cause very big problems. Ticks that sometimes carry Lyme disease are a growing concern in Canada, with the pinhead-sized insects inching north from the…
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Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Lyme Disease -Induced Polyradiculopathy Mimicking Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
ByCanLyme Team June 22, 2014April 21, 2023
2014 Abstract Abstract Importance: To describe a case of predominantly motor polyradiculopathy secondary to Lyme disease that can mimic motor neuron diseaseand has been rarely reported. Observations: A 64 year-old man presented with a one-month history of rapidly progressive weakness involving bulbar, upper limb and lower limb muscles. The physical examination showed widespread weakness, atrophy, fasciculation and brisk…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Research
Lambton Public Health finds 18 blacklegged ticks during tick drag
ByCanLyme Team June 22, 2014April 21, 2023
June 21st, 2014 Be on the lookout for ticks when at the Pinery this summer. Lambton Public Health found more than 30 of the biting bothers during a tick drag in the provincial park in mid-May and more than half were the blacklegged (deer) variety that can carry Lyme-disease causing bacteria. It’s the first time…
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For Physicians | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Characteristics of seroconversion and implications for diagnosis of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome: acute and convalescent serology among a prospective cohort of early Lyme disease patients
ByCanLyme Team June 20, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: Here is a quote from the Lyme Disease Research Foundation at John Hopkins University that furthers our long held concerns about the current two-tier testing model in use Canada-wide having very serious limitations as a diagnostic tool, “Characteristics of seroconversion and implications for diagnosis of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome: acute and convalescent serology…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Geographical and genospecies distribution of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato DNA detected in humans in the USA
ByCanLyme Team June 19, 2014April 21, 2023
Jounral of Medical Microbiology Kerry L. Clark1, Brian F. Leydet2 and Clifford Threlkeld Correspondence Kerry L. Clark kclark [at] unf [dot] edu Received 14 January 2014. Accepted 23 February 2014. Abstract The present study investigated the cause of illness in human patients primarily in the southern USA with suspected Lyme disease based on erythema migrans-like skin lesions and/or…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Alberta | Medical Publications | Voices on Lyme | Your Stories
Lucky in Lyme
ByCanLyme Team June 18, 2014April 21, 2023
Lucky in Lyme by Lisa Robertson Posted June 18th, 2014 It has taken me a long time to finally find the courage to speak out regarding my Lyme journey. My husband’s new role as superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools is very public, and I really didn’t want to bring more attention to our family! However,…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Voices on Lyme
Times Colonist, Victoria, BC, Canada: Lyme disease needs more research
ByCanLyme Team June 17, 2014April 21, 2023
Elizabeth May has achieved something of a miracle – the MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands and the leader of the federal Green party got a private-member’s bill through Parliament with unanimous approval. More important, the bill opens the door to better diagnosis and treatment of a serious disease that many say is a growing threat to…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Manitoba | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Manitoba : Province expands Lyme Disease risk areas
ByCanLyme Team June 14, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: Ticks that carry Lyme Disease are spread randomly in the tens of millions by migratory birds. By emphasizing only areas that they have found established tick populations, it has been one of the most harmful policies put in place yet they continue this imprinting in doctors minds that if patients have not been in these known…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Manitoba | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
CBC TV Manitoba: Tick season in Manitoba: Causes death
ByCanLyme Team June 13, 2014April 21, 2023
Tick season in Manitoba: causes death In 2011, Michelle Millar and her partner Jim were bitten by ticks carrying Lyme disease and other illnesses. Jim later died. CBC’s Jill Coubrough reports. Michelle gives a great talk on how her life as she knew it was taken from her. Victim or Lyme, and victim of a…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Vancouver Sun: June 11, 2014 – Vancouver’s beleaguered chronic disease clinic loses a third doctor
ByCanLyme Team June 11, 2014April 21, 2023
Facility has 1,400 patients on a waiting list for care By Pamela Fayerman, Vancouver Sun A third doctor resigned Wednesday from the year-old, beleaguered Complex Chronic Disease Program at BC Women’s Hospital. Dr. Liz Zubek quit because she believes the clinic is “going backwards instead of forwards in terms of meeting its mandate,”…
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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

Canadian Living – What you need to know about Lyme Disease

Gripping speech by husband of Lyme Disease victim – strong condemnation of Canadian health care

Orillia OPP detective remains baffled by her disease

Beating Lyme Disease

Identification of novel activity against Borrelia burgdorferi persisters using an FDA approved drug library

Edmonton, Canada : Ticks crawl north, bringing threat of Lyme Disease

Lyme Disease -Induced Polyradiculopathy Mimicking Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Lambton Public Health finds 18 blacklegged ticks during tick drag

Characteristics of seroconversion and implications for diagnosis of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome: acute and convalescent serology among a prospective cohort of early Lyme disease patients

Geographical and genospecies distribution of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato DNA detected in humans in the USA

Lucky in Lyme

Times Colonist, Victoria, BC, Canada: Lyme disease needs more research

Manitoba : Province expands Lyme Disease risk areas

CBC TV Manitoba: Tick season in Manitoba: Causes death

Vancouver Sun: June 11, 2014 – Vancouver’s beleaguered chronic disease clinic loses a third doctor

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