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Vancouver Island hawk is first to be found with ticks carrying Lyme bug
ByCanLyme Team February 9, 2014April 21, 2023
BY AMY SMART, TIMES COLONIST FEBRUARY 9, 2014 4:00 PM A Vancouver Island hawk is the first raptor to join the list of species believed to spread Lyme disease. Research scientist John Scott said the Cooper’s hawk was found with 22 ticks on it, four of which were infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme disease….
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Ontario, Canada, researcher John Scott first to find raptor birds with Lyme Disease and Lyme Disease carrying ticks.
ByCanLyme Team February 6, 2014April 21, 2023
Abstract During a pan-Canadian tick-host study, we detected the spirochetal bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, which causes Lyme disease, in ticks collected from a raptor. Lyme disease is one of a number of zoonotic, tick-borne diseases causing morbidity and mortality worldwide. Larvae of the avian coastal tick, Ixodes auritulus, were collected by wildlife rehabilitators from…
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Listen to the striking interviews of Canadian microbiologist Marianne Middelveen, Dr. Rafael Stricker and as well, Andy Abrahams Wilson, producer of the award winning documentary, Under Our Skin.
ByCanLyme Team February 6, 2014April 21, 2023
Listen to KPFA Flashpoints radio host, Dennis Bernstein, interview Canadian microbiologist Marianne Middelveen, and Dr. Ray Stricker discuss their research indicating Lyme Disease may be a sexually transmitted disease, not unlike it’s cousin, syphilis, another spirochaetal bacteria. Andy Abrahams Wilson speaks about the creation of his documentary ‘Under Our Skin’, that was shortlisted for an…
Read More Listen to the striking interviews of Canadian microbiologist Marianne Middelveen, Dr. Rafael Stricker and as well, Andy Abrahams Wilson, producer of the award winning documentary, Under Our Skin.
Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Multiple Sclerosis – Did you know? Spirochetes found in Multiple Sclerosis patients?
ByCanLyme Team January 31, 2014April 21, 2023
TIME Magazine, June 24, 1957 Multiple sclerosis victims (about 250,000 in the U.S.) were anxiously wondering about a possible clue to their mysterious disease, which is marked by near-total loss of muscle control. (It happens when the myelin sheath, a fatty insulation around nerve pathways, degenerates for unknown reasons, thus short-circuiting nerve signals.) Philadelphia Bacteriologist…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Listen to Dr. Alan MacDonald, pathologist, and Tom Grier, microbiologist in radio interview
ByCanLyme Team January 29, 2014April 21, 2023
Microbiologist Tom Grier (MS-Lyme), and pathologist Dr. Alan MacDonald (Alzheimer’s-Lyme fame) were interviewed, Tuesday, January 28th, on KPFA 94.1 FM radio, Berkeley, California, by host Dennis Bernstein. Listen to the archived show at KPFA FM 94.1 Berkeley, CA radio
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Media | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Listen to famous author Amy Tan and Dr. Steve Harris talk about Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme Team January 27, 2014April 21, 2023
Host Dennis Bernstein interviews famous ‘Joy of Luck Club’ author Amy Tan about her struggles getting the diagnosis of Lyme Disease. Also, Dr. Steve Harris, the well known California Lyme Disease educated physician, is interviewed as well. Listen to Tan/Harris interview Very good interview and is only the beginning of more to come. The next show info is ……
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Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Powerful Pictures Campaign – LDAA –
ByCanLyme Team January 26, 2014April 21, 2023
POWERFUL PICTURES CAMPAIGN ~ LDAA~ The Vision: To make a compelling & inspiring video presentation made up of still pictures. These pictures will be of various people from around Alberta who have dealt with Lyme in some way; Patients, Caregivers, Family & Friends, anyone & everyone; all conveying a common message. Each person who participates…
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Call for a “Manhattan Project” to Combat the Epidemic
ByCanLyme Team January 26, 2014April 21, 2023
Citation: Stricker RB, Johnson L (2014) Lyme Disease: Call for a “Manhattan Project” to Combat the Epidemic. PLoS Pathog 10(1): e1003796. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003796 Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in the world today. Until recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an average of only 30,000 cases of Lyme disease per year…
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Resurgence of Persisting Non-Cultivable Borrelia burgdorferi following Antibiotic Treatment in Mice
ByCanLyme Team January 25, 2014April 21, 2023
Emir Hodzic, Denise Imai, Sunlian Feng, Stephen W. Barthold Published: January 23, 2014 Abstract The agent of Lyme borreliosis, Borrelia burgdorferi, evades host immunity and establishes persistent infections in its varied mammalian hosts. This persistent biology may pose challenges to effective antibiotic treatment. Experimental studies in dogs, mice, and non-human primates have found persistence of B. burgdorferi DNA following treatment…
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Lyme Disease May Be Sexually Transmitted, Study Suggests
ByCanLyme Team January 25, 2014April 21, 2023
From study author Marianne Middelveen: Motile spirochetes identified as Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto were cultured from vaginal and seminal secretions and that supports other evidence that there could be sexual transmission. We are at the early stages of investigation and there is a lot more that we have to learn. We are doing a larger study…
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International News | Lyme in New Brunswick | Miscellaneous | Research
Vet calls for routine tests for dogs to track Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team January 23, 2014April 21, 2023
Blood test non-invasive, provides quick results CBC News – Posted: Jan 23, 2014 A dog bravely endured Lyme disease testing earlier this month. (Courtesy Elisha Dickinson-Mills) A Hampton-based veterinarian wants to see routine blood tests for dogs to keep track of Lyme disease in New Brunswick. Dr. Elisha Dickinson-Mills tested 55 dogs at her clinic on…
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Why is the CDC Trying to Block an Accurate Lyme Disease Test?
ByCanLyme Team January 21, 2014April 21, 2023
Posted on January 16, 2014 By Bob Goodwin, an investor and medical device entrepreneur who lives in Mercer Island, Washington A recent article in Medscape is titled New Lyme Culture Test Failed CDC Analysis. At first I took the article and paper at face value, and tried to dig into the errors of a chronic-Lyme…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Ontario: Fighting to Recover
ByCanLyme Team January 21, 2014April 21, 2023
By Rob Houle St. Catherines Standard Sunday, January 19, 2014 Matt Risi wants his life back. For the last 10 years, his health has been in a downward spiral. The bite of an insect that can be the size of the period at the end of this sentence altered his life. Risi has Lyme disease as…
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Guidelines - Boxing-in disease | International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Medicine Or Mass Murder? Guideline Based on Discredited Research May Have Caused 800,000 Deaths In Europe Over The Last 5 Years
ByCanLyme Team January 16, 2014April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: The Infectious Disease Society of America’s Lyme Disease guidelines have so many flaws, and are so devoid of independent ethical evaluation in relation to the global databank of research that they may become the most notorious guidelines of the past one-hundred years to have caused so much global disability … all while the…
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Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
From AIDS to Lyme: Will We Let History Repeat Itself?
ByCanLyme Team January 14, 2014April 21, 2023
Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:59 By Jessica Bernstein “We’re here because this government has the resources to deal with the AIDS epidemic and they won’t do it unless we force them.” – ACT Up activist protesting the FDA,1988 “I am one of the 300,000 plus annual Lyme patients being ignored by the CDC and HMOs.” – Lyme disease…
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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

Vancouver Island hawk is first to be found with ticks carrying Lyme bug

Ontario, Canada, researcher John Scott first to find raptor birds with Lyme Disease and Lyme Disease carrying ticks.

Listen to the striking interviews of Canadian microbiologist Marianne Middelveen, Dr. Rafael Stricker and as well, Andy Abrahams Wilson, producer of the award winning documentary, Under Our Skin.

Multiple Sclerosis – Did you know? Spirochetes found in Multiple Sclerosis patients?

Listen to Dr. Alan MacDonald, pathologist, and Tom Grier, microbiologist in radio interview

Listen to famous author Amy Tan and Dr. Steve Harris talk about Lyme Disease

Powerful Pictures Campaign – LDAA –

Call for a “Manhattan Project” to Combat the Epidemic

Resurgence of Persisting Non-Cultivable Borrelia burgdorferi following Antibiotic Treatment in Mice

Lyme Disease May Be Sexually Transmitted, Study Suggests

Vet calls for routine tests for dogs to track Lyme disease

Why is the CDC Trying to Block an Accurate Lyme Disease Test?

Ontario: Fighting to Recover

Medicine Or Mass Murder? Guideline Based on Discredited Research May Have Caused 800,000 Deaths In Europe Over The Last 5 Years

From AIDS to Lyme: Will We Let History Repeat Itself?

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