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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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Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
CTV National News: Side effects of Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team April 27, 2014April 21, 2023
CTV’s medical specialist Avis Favaro reports on the painful side effects of undiagnosed Lyme disease in Canada and the link to child arthritis. Dr. Robbin Lindsay from the National Microbiology Laboratory speaks. Prompt and thorough tick checks are required. Watch CTV News
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Globe and Mail – Lyme disease on the rise in Canada, linked to ticks
ByCanLyme Team April 27, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme Note: The $300,000 noted in the article were transferred by CanLyme to the G. Magnotta Foundation for Vector-Borne Diseases in Toronto, not directly to the Humber River Hospital as stated in the article. These monies were raised by the Magnotta family for the purpose of establishing a research facility. The research program is being…
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Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
The Purple Paper – a publication of the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Canada.
ByCanLyme Team April 27, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: The comments below are a review by our expert science reviewers in light of some of the content in the now published Purple Paper. This paper will be used in university settings, and cited. It is an example of how young minds are pulled in one direction only, and never given the entire argument. Taxpayers…
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Lyme in Ontario | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Blacklegged Tick Population by Migratory Birds in Ontario, Canada
ByCanLyme Team April 24, 2014April 21, 2023
Researchers have discovered a new Lyme disease endemic area in Frontenac County that was likely started by spring migratory songbirds. This remote site, near Verona, Ontario, is located a considerable distance from roads and dwellings, which indicates that songbirds introduced immature (larva, nymphs) blacklegged ticks, the primary vector of the Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi….
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Updates
Your donations matter
ByCanLyme April 21, 2014April 21, 2023
CanLyme is a registered charitable organization (#864437603RR0001). Too many Lyme disease patients had been previously diagnosed with other disorders such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinsonism, various forms of arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome/ME, fibromyalgia, various heart disorders, Alzheimer’s Disease, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), irritable bowel syndrome, skin conditions, and many others, just to find out later that…
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Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Nova Scotia – Health minister willing to work towards solution
ByCanLyme Team April 21, 2014April 21, 2023
NEW WATERFORD – Nova Scotia Health minister Leo Glavine said after hearing families are being forced to leave the province to get treated for Lyme disease, he’s willing to step in immediately to do something about it. “I can confirm the Department of Heath – and currently as Minister of Health – I’m committed to…
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Events
Upcoming Lyme Awareness/Support events
ByCanLyme Team April 20, 2014April 21, 2023
Ongoing meetings, Winnipeg, MB Meet every third Tuesday of month. Month of February, meeting Tuesday February 17 at 7 pm, 622 Tache, Winnipeg, Manitoba. All welcome Calgary, AB, April 23rd, 2015 Dual showing of Under Our Skin For details go to https://www.albertalyme.org/events/index.html Nelson, BC, May 23rd, 2015 Showing of Under Our Skin 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm…
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International News | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Singing sensation Debbie Gibson Details Her Struggle With Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme Team April 19, 2014April 21, 2023
By Raechal Leone Shewfelt | Yahoo Celebrity – Fri, Apr 18, 2014 21:52 BST Debbie Gibson isn’t just a pop star. For the past year, she’s also been a patient. Gibson, who is best known for her ’80s songs such as “Only in My Dreams” and “Shake Your Love,” revealed on her blog Wednesday that…
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Events | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Watch Lyme awareness presentation by CanLyme president given to residents of Cawston, BC, and surrounding area.
ByCanLyme Team April 18, 2014April 21, 2023
Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation president, Jim Wilson, was invited to Cawston, BC, to present an awareness and information session to resident of Cawston, BC, and surrounding area, at their community hall. For our part at CanLyme even small communities such as Cawston need to have better information given to them considering that many in the area are…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
The prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi infection, and co-infections with other Borrelia spp. in Ixodes scapularis ticks collected in Canada
ByCanLyme Team April 17, 2014April 21, 2023
Antonia Dibernardo, Tyler Cote, Nicholas H Ogden and L Robbin Lindsay Published: 15 April 2014 Abstract (provisional) Background Blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis are vectors of the tick-borne pathogens Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti. Recently, the I. scapularis-borne bacterium Borrelia miyamotoi has been linked to human illness in North America. The range of this tick is…
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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

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

CTV National News: Side effects of Lyme disease

Globe and Mail – Lyme disease on the rise in Canada, linked to ticks

The Purple Paper – a publication of the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Canada.

Blacklegged Tick Population by Migratory Birds in Ontario, Canada

Your donations matter

Nova Scotia – Health minister willing to work towards solution

Upcoming Lyme Awareness/Support events

Singing sensation Debbie Gibson Details Her Struggle With Lyme Disease

Watch Lyme awareness presentation by CanLyme president given to residents of Cawston, BC, and surrounding area.

The prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi infection, and co-infections with other Borrelia spp. in Ixodes scapularis ticks collected in Canada

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