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Chronic disease expert at pioneer B.C. Women’s clinic leaves abruptly
ByCanLyme Team May 22, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: From freedom of information documents it is clear that the clinic came about as a result of the now famous Schmidt report on Lyme Disease. The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation sat on the patient’s advisory panel for over 2 years during the development of the clinic but we withdrew when it was clear…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Alberta | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Global TV, Calgary : Lyme disease still a controversial diagnosis, as Alberta cases climb
ByCanLyme Team May 20, 2014April 21, 2023
By Heather Yourex Health Reporter May 19th, 2014 CALGARY– Alberta Health officials are once again warning people to be on the lookout for ticks. Last year, the province collected and analyzed 960 ticks, and found burgdorferi bacteria. The bacteria most commonly linked to Lyme disease is present in about 20 per cent of black-legged ticks….
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Lyme in Alberta | Miscellaneous
Calgary Herald : Province increases tick monitoring as cases of Lyme disease rise
ByCanLyme Team May 20, 2014April 21, 2023
By Jamie Komarnicki, Calgary Herald May 20, 2014 7:28 PM With the number of confirmed Lyme disease cases rising in Alberta, the provincial government is going into the field for the first time to try to get a handle on whether the ticks that can transmit the bacteria to humans are surviving through the winter….
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Lyme in Manitoba | Miscellaneous
Winnipeg Sun : Even city dogs are at risk of Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team May 20, 2014April 21, 2023
By Doug Lunney,Winnipeg Sun First posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 04:43 PM CDT | Updated: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 04:48 PM CDT Colleen Holloway routinely sees dogs in hard-luck situations, so it’s not often when one strikes her as particularly severe. “We’ve had few heart worm moms come in, but this is a pretty vicious…
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Lyme in quebec | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Lyme disease diagnosis a battle in Quebec, patients say
ByCanLyme Team May 18, 2014April 21, 2023
Some patients going to United States for diagnosis and treatment because of lack of awareness in Quebec CBC News Posted: May 18, 2014 12:23 PM ET| Margaret Glaser says the past 12 years she’s spent living with undiagnosed Lyme disease has been like “living in hell” – not only because of the severity of her…
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International News | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
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…
Read More UNF Professor Discovers Two Lyme Disease Bacteria Previously Unknown to Infect Human Patients
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,…
Read More Borrelia miyamotoi sensu lato seroreactivity and seroprevalence in the northeastern United States.
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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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

Chronic disease expert at pioneer B.C. Women’s clinic leaves abruptly

Global TV, Calgary : Lyme disease still a controversial diagnosis, as Alberta cases climb

Calgary Herald : Province increases tick monitoring as cases of Lyme disease rise

Winnipeg Sun : Even city dogs are at risk of Lyme disease

Lyme disease diagnosis a battle in Quebec, patients say

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

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