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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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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
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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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Poor Research
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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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Doctor’s sister ends up with Lyme Disease causing her to research Lyme Disease beyond the ‘official’ perspective.
ByCanLyme Team January 14, 2014April 21, 2023
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/lyme-disease—debilitating-illness-3008746 Lyme disease – the debilitating illness which can be a hidden danger of a healthy country walk Jan 10, 2014 16:23By Miriam Stoppard The Mirror’s health columnist Dr Miriam Stoppard knows from her own sister’s experience how draining the condition can be. My sister lives in south west France where Lyme disease is rife…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Lyme Disease-Induced Polyradiculopathy Mimicking Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
ByCanLyme Team January 13, 2014April 21, 2023
Abstract Importance: To describe a case of predominantly motor polyradiculopathy secondary to Lyme disease that can mimic motor neuron disease and has been rarely reported. Observations: A 64 year-old man presented with a one-month history of rapidly progressive weakness involving bulbar, upper limb and lower limb muscles. The physical examination showed widespread weakness, atrophy, fasciculation and brisk…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Distinguishing Lyme from septic knee monoarthritis in Lyme disease-endemic areas
ByCanLyme Team January 13, 2014April 21, 2023
Deanehan JK, Tan Tanny SP, Milewski MD, Talusan PG, Smith BG, Nigrovic LE, Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital andHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA Abstract OBJECTIVE: Because Lyme and septic arthritis may present similarly, we sought to identify children with knee monoarthritis at low risk for septic arthritis who may not require arthrocentesis. METHODS: We…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Comparison of Lyme Disease Prevalence and Reporting in and Endemic Area
ByCanLyme Team January 13, 2014April 21, 2023
Abstract Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States; however, controversy surrounding the diagnostic criteria has led to claims of both under-diagnosis and over-diagnosis of Lyme disease by physicians. While both result in errors in estimating disease risk, under-reporting of Lyme disease to public health agencies underestimates the risk and…
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International News | Medical Publications | Research
The difficulty in detecting Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme Team January 10, 2014April 21, 2023
FAIRMONT – In Minnesota, the summer months are feeding season for the deer tick nymph, the second stage in a tick’s life, when the miniscule arachnid is just the size of a pin head. This is when most cases of Lyme disease are reported, and it’s also when the tick is likely to go undetected….
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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

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?

Doctor’s sister ends up with Lyme Disease causing her to research Lyme Disease beyond the ‘official’ perspective.

Lyme Disease-Induced Polyradiculopathy Mimicking Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Distinguishing Lyme from septic knee monoarthritis in Lyme disease-endemic areas

Comparison of Lyme Disease Prevalence and Reporting in and Endemic Area

The difficulty in detecting Lyme Disease

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