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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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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Voices on Lyme
AM 640 radio, Toronto: Is Canada doing enough to fight Lyme Disease?
ByCanLyme Team April 15, 2014April 21, 2023
April 15th, 2014 Last week radio host John Oakley had a physician on who dismissed Lyme Disease as being a big deal, and that US labs that are diagnosing Canadians with Lyme simply for profit. For a physician to make such a statement without evidence gives some insight into how baseless rumour and inuendo seems to…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Welland Tribune – Ontario: Lyme disease patient inspires petition
ByCanLyme Team April 11, 2014April 21, 2023
By Allan Benner, The Tribune Friday, April 11, 2014 11:10:22 EDT AM Alex Latham was inspired when he learned about the plight of a Welland woman diagnosed with Lyme disease. He was at work at General Motors when a co-worker told him about the challenges 24-year-old Bylynnda Turvey and her family have faced in trying…
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Government | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Nova Scotia | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Nova Scotia – Houston presents bill to address Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme Team April 11, 2014April 21, 2023
Published on April 10, 2014 Today in the Legislature, Tim Houston, Progressive Conservative MLA for Pictou East, introduced a bill to develop a comprehensive Lyme Disease Strategy for Nova Scotia. “I am proud to be able to bring forward this long overdue legislation to address patients’ concerns respecting the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Media | Voices on Lyme
Healthwise magazine – Ottawa – Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme Team April 11, 2014April 21, 2023
Read the article in Healthwise magazine by clicking on link, then use the interactive reading tool by putting your cursor over the magazine. Use the arrows to go to page 42. Read full article
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Medical Publications | Research
Diversity of piroplasms detected in blood-fed and questing ticks from several states in the United States.
ByCanLyme Team April 10, 2014April 21, 2023
Shock BC, Moncayo A, Cohen S, Mitchell EA, Williamson PC, Lopez G, Garrison LE, Yabsley MJ. online before print 2014 Apr 4.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.01.003 Abstract Piroplasms in the genera Babesia, Theileria, and Cytauxzoon are tick-borne parasites that may be animal and human pathogens. Most piroplasms with known life cycles are transmitted by ixodid ticks; however, for many…
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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

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

AM 640 radio, Toronto: Is Canada doing enough to fight Lyme Disease?

Welland Tribune – Ontario: Lyme disease patient inspires petition

Nova Scotia – Houston presents bill to address Lyme Disease

Healthwise magazine – Ottawa – Lyme Disease

Diversity of piroplasms detected in blood-fed and questing ticks from several states in the United States.

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