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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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International News | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
UK : Scientist left struggling to walk after contracting Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team January 10, 2014April 21, 2023
CanLyme note: Listen to this scientist’s symptoms… unable to walk, crawling around house, then, look at what the American Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) calls these symptoms, “the aches and pains of daily living”… outrageous, yet Canadian doctors and labs are forced to follow the IDSA guidelines or risk their licence to practice.. Aberdeen…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Research | Voices on Lyme
UK : Scientists and doctors unite to defeat tick bite disease
ByCanLyme Team January 10, 2014April 21, 2023
DOCTORS and scientists are working to develop the first UK-wide campaign to tackle a chronic bacterial infection that has increased 1000% in Scotland over the past decade. Lyme disease can affect organs such as the heart and brain, resulting in a range of long-term ill-health, including vision and mobility problems. The multi-disciplinary team is being…
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Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Calgary Herald, letter to editor: Internet a good source of medical information
ByCanLyme Team January 10, 2014April 21, 2023
Re: “We’ve become a nation of Internet hypochondriacs,” Josh Freed, Opinion, Jan. 2. I take offence to Josh Freed’s sweeping comments about illnesses such as Lyme disease and the Internet creating a nation of hypochondriacs. My partner was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005. He had classic MS symptoms, along with other symptoms I did…
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Lyme in New Brunswick | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Lyme disease in N.B. focus of study by biologists, vets
ByCanLyme Team January 10, 2014April 21, 2023
Researchers from Mount Allison University and veterinarians from across New Brunswick are joining forces to determine how widespread Lyme disease is in the province. They will be collecting blood samples from dogs and testing for antibodies to Borrelia, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. Borrelia is commonly transmitted to both dogs and humans through tick bites. About…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Ontario Medical Review journal letter to editor, “Understanding Lyme Disease”
ByCanLyme Team January 10, 2014April 21, 2023
…”Much of the contention and controversy with regard to Lyme disease centres on the Infectious Disease of America clinical practice guidelines referenced in the OMR article. Clearly, these guidelines need to be updated and revised.” Read full text
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International News | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research | Voices on Lyme
Bayer Leads Unique Effort to Support Global Public Health by Fighting Vector-Borne Diseases
ByCanLyme Team January 10, 2014April 21, 2023
Release date- 09012014 – Leverkusen, – Nearly half of the world’s population is infected with at least one type of vector-borne disease (1). These diseases are transmitted from parasites to animals and humans, and have a significant impact on public health and our global economy. The economic impact of Lyme disease alone is estimated to…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Cervical cancer breakthrough as scientists discover a test that heats the blood could diagnose the disease [and other diseases like Lyme Disease]
ByCanLyme Team January 10, 2014April 21, 2023
By EMMA INNES PUBLISHED: 22:44 GMT, 8 January 2014 …”The experimental technology has already been used to identify lung, skin, ovarian, and womb cancers as well as other diseases including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Lyme disease and motor neurone disease”. Heating a patient’s blood could provide a simple new test for cervical cancer, say researchers. The plasma thermogram…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Spate Of Fatal Lyme Cases Surprises Health Officials
ByCanLyme Team January 1, 2014April 21, 2023
By WILLIAM WEIR, bweir [at] courant [dot] com The Hartford Courant 10:06 p.m. EST, December 31, 2013 A series of fatal cases of Lyme disease in the Northeast, including one from Connecticut, have health officials on the lookout for a very rare complication of the tick-borne disease. The first fatality was in November 2012, when a Massachusetts resident…
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Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Tiny tick causes big problems
ByCanLyme Team January 1, 2014April 21, 2023
By Daryl Vandenberg | September 12, 2013 | Smiling is something most of us take for granted, but for Shayna Jenny Van Dyke, the possibility of losing it is something she thinks of daily. She said when she’s having a relapse with her Lyme disease; numbness in her face is the first sign. In 2009 Lyme disease became a…
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Miscellaneous | Research | Voices on Lyme
On the Curious Motions of Syphilis and Lyme Disease Bacteria
ByCanLyme Team January 1, 2014April 21, 2023
By Jennifer Frazer | December 28, 2013 The bacteria that cause syphilis and Lyme Disease have something extraordinary in common: they manage to propel themselves through their environment in spite of the fact their tails are located inside their bodies. For bacteria, they’re also unusually shaped and active. In this movie, you can see the bacteria that cause Lyme Disease moving like living, squirming cavatappi….
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News and updates

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Announcing the second annual Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference

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Elliot Jacobson: Downstream Secondary Illness in Lyme Disease

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

UK : Scientist left struggling to walk after contracting Lyme disease

UK : Scientists and doctors unite to defeat tick bite disease

Calgary Herald, letter to editor: Internet a good source of medical information

Lyme disease in N.B. focus of study by biologists, vets

Ontario Medical Review journal letter to editor, “Understanding Lyme Disease”

Bayer Leads Unique Effort to Support Global Public Health by Fighting Vector-Borne Diseases

Cervical cancer breakthrough as scientists discover a test that heats the blood could diagnose the disease [and other diseases like Lyme Disease]

Spate Of Fatal Lyme Cases Surprises Health Officials

Tiny tick causes big problems

On the Curious Motions of Syphilis and Lyme Disease Bacteria

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