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Filarial Nematode Infection in Ixodes scapularis Ticks Collected from Southern Connecticut
ByCanLyme Team May 13, 2014April 21, 2023
Pabbati Namrata, Jamie M. Miller, Madari Shilpa, Patlolla Raghavender Reddy, Cheryl Bandoski, Michael J. Rossi and Eva Sapi Veterinary Sciences, 2014, 1(1), 5-15. Abstract It was recently demonstrated that the lone star tick Amblyomma americanum could harbor filarial nematodes within the genus Acanthocheilonema. In this study, Ixodes scapularis (deer) ticks collected from Southern Connecticut were…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
UNF Professor Discovers Two Lyme Disease Bacteria Previously Unknown to Infect Human Patients
ByCanLyme Team May 13, 2014April 21, 2023
Dr. Kerry Clark, associate professor of public health at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, and his colleagues have found additional cases of Lyme disease in patients from several states in the southeastern U.S. These cases include two additional Lyme disease Borrelia species recently identified in patients in Florida and Georgia. Overall, 42 percent…
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Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Research
Borrelia miyamotoi sensu lato seroreactivity and seroprevalence in the northeastern United States.
ByCanLyme Team May 10, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: More evidence that the current two tier testing model imposed upon Canadians is incapable of detecting the genetic diversity of Borrelia we have, just as Health Canada published 1.5 years ago, yet Infectious Disease doctors, including paediatricians refuse to see anyone without a positive two tier test… stunningly unethical and ‘to hell with the patient,…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Medical Publications | Voices on Lyme
Road to recovery long, painful for Lyme victims
ByCanLyme Team May 9, 2014April 21, 2023
May 9th, 2014 by Amy Smart, Times Colonist, Victoria, BC The first alarm bell went off for Dr. Ted Cormode when his daughter called from her car saying she was frightened. The Langford woman had numbness in her neck, going up the side of her face, Cormode said. His daughter, 43, has since been diagnosed…
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Miscellaneous | News from CanLyme | Voices on Lyme
Brampton Lyme Walk this Saturday
ByCanLyme Team May 9, 2014April 21, 2023
BRAMPTON– Hers was a lone voice– that often turned hoarse– as she called upon the government and health practitioners to sit up and take notice of the debilitating effects of Lyme disease. Brampton resident Marlene Spies did not give up even when it seemed no was listening, but in the last four years, her advocacy…
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Research
Lyme disease risk not amplified in a species-poor vertebrate community: Similar Borrelia burgdorferi tick infection prevalence and OspC genotype frequencies
ByCanLyme Team May 6, 2014April 21, 2023
Abstract The effect of biodiversity declines on human health is currently debated, but empirical assessments are lacking. Lyme disease provides a model system to assess relationships between biodiversity and human disease because the etiologic agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted in the United States by the generalist black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis) among a wide range…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Radio Canada International – Lyme disease increasing and mishandled
ByCanLyme Team May 5, 2014April 21, 2023
By Lynn Desjardins | english [at] rcinet [dot] caSunday 4 May, 2014 As Canada gets warmer more disease-carrying ticks are spreading Lyme disease and advocates say not enough is being done to help those who are stricken. People going undiagnosed It’s not clear how many Canadians have caught Lyme disease because current testing detects only…
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Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous
Benefits Canada magazine: Lyme disease in the limelight
ByCanLyme Team May 2, 2014April 21, 2023
Marcia McDougall | May 1, 2014 May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, a global initiative targeted at raising awareness of this debilitating condition. The fact that most people–and employers–aren’t familiar with the disease, its symptoms and treatment options indicates that a campaign to raise its profile is needed, especially as the incidence of Lyme disease…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Barrie mom launches battle to help son and others stricken by Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team May 2, 2014April 21, 2023
Paul Weyer hasn’t kissed his wife since November 2012. It’s not that Paul doesn’t want to kiss his wife, Tara, it’s simply that he doesn’t want to spread Babesia and the other tick-borne diseases he’s been fighting for the past two years. Weyer was born and grew up in Barrie with his five siblings in…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Vermont passes bill into law that protects doctors who treat Lyme Disease appropriately without fear of persecution from their own licensing boards
ByCanLyme Team May 1, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: Medical boards are very good at skirting these laws by going into a Lyme doctor’s practice on trumped-up complaints that make it look like Lyme disease was not the reason for the investigation. It is now incumbant upon Lyme advocacy groups to monitor for this abuse of the medical profession’s privilege to self-police so that…
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Government reports & letters | Lyme in Alberta | Miscellaneous
Calgary declares May as Lyme Disease Awareness Month – Mayor Naheed Nenshi
ByCanLyme Team May 1, 2014April 21, 2023
From the Lyme Disease Association of Alberta (LDAA) … The month of MAY has been officially declared LYME AWARNESS MONTH in Calgary by Major Naheed Nenshi! See attached pictures of the official proclamation! You can be sure that with your help, we will work hard to have this happen in other Albertan cities next May!…
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Featured | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous
Canada: Elizabeth May’s National Lyme Disease Strategy Act passes second reading in House of Commons
ByCanLyme Team May 1, 2014April 21, 2023
OTTAWA – Bill C-442, the National Lyme Disease Strategy Act, passed second reading in the House of Commons yesterday evening and has now been sent to the House Standing Committee on Health for further study. Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich–Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party of Canada first introduced this bill…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Lyme Neuroborreliosis and Dementia
ByCanLyme Team May 1, 2014April 21, 2023
Abstract Introduction: Descriptions of Lyme disease and dementia are rare. Objective: To describe patients with dementia and a positive “intrathecal anti-Borrelia antibody index” (AI), specific for neuroborreliosis. Methods: Among 1,594 patients seen for dementia, we prospectively identified and studied 20 patients (1.25%) with dementia and a positive AI. Patients underwent a battery…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Full house at South Surrey Lyme forum – Canada
ByCanLyme Team April 28, 2014April 21, 2023
by Sarah Massah – Peace Arch News posted Apr 28, 2014 at 12:00 PM It was a full house at a South Surrey Lyme disease forum last week. The April 24 event at Semiahmoo House Society was hosted by local Discount Tire owner Louise Roderick – who had spoken to Peace Arch News last summer about…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Manitoba | Voices on Lyme
Is tick-borne germ causing scourge? Important Archive
ByCanLyme Team April 28, 2014April 21, 2023
Lyme disease might be the real culprit By: Melissa Martin, Winnipeg Free Press, from April 15th, 2010 Fact: Manitoba has one of the highest rates of multiple sclerosis in the country. Or do we just think we do? In a recent thesis, Winnipeg researcher Kathleen Crang found that some Manitobans diagnosed with MS and other chronic…
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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

Filarial Nematode Infection in Ixodes scapularis Ticks Collected from Southern Connecticut

UNF Professor Discovers Two Lyme Disease Bacteria Previously Unknown to Infect Human Patients

Borrelia miyamotoi sensu lato seroreactivity and seroprevalence in the northeastern United States.

Road to recovery long, painful for Lyme victims

Brampton Lyme Walk this Saturday

Lyme disease risk not amplified in a species-poor vertebrate community: Similar Borrelia burgdorferi tick infection prevalence and OspC genotype frequencies

Radio Canada International – Lyme disease increasing and mishandled

Benefits Canada magazine: Lyme disease in the limelight

Barrie mom launches battle to help son and others stricken by Lyme disease

Vermont passes bill into law that protects doctors who treat Lyme Disease appropriately without fear of persecution from their own licensing boards

Calgary declares May as Lyme Disease Awareness Month – Mayor Naheed Nenshi

Canada: Elizabeth May’s National Lyme Disease Strategy Act passes second reading in House of Commons

Lyme Neuroborreliosis and Dementia

Full house at South Surrey Lyme forum – Canada

Is tick-borne germ causing scourge? Important Archive

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