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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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Medical Publications | Research
Crucial Player For Lyme Disease Transmission Identified
ByCanLyme Team December 21, 2013April 21, 2023
December 20th, 2013 Public Library of Science Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, hitchhikes in ticks for dissemination to mammalian hosts–including humans. An article in the 19 December issue of PLOS Pathogens identifies HrpA, an RNA helicase, as a crucial player in the transmission from ticks to mammals. George Chaconas, from the University of Calgary, Canada, and…
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Miscellaneous | Research
United States: Delegate Ramadan Announces $250,000 in Budget for Lyme Testing at George Mason University
ByCanLyme Team December 18, 2013April 21, 2023
~Governor McDonnell included this budget item based on Delegate Ramadan’s request ~ Dulles, VA | December 18, 2013 – Delegate David Ramadan (87th) announced today that funding he requested for a groundbreaking new Lyme disease test developed by George Mason University has been included in Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s proposed 2015-2016 budget. George Mason University’s Center…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
York Region, Ontario: Vet urges caution following tick discovery
ByCanLyme Team December 16, 2013April 21, 2023
By Amanda Persico Dec. 16th, 2013 While tick season is usually in spring and fall, when temperatures are above 4C and there is no snow, the warm spell we had at the beginning of the month could have spurred a tick storm, according to a Markham veterinarian. And blacklegged ticks can carry lyme disease. At the…
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Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Research
Mosquito’s? Selected phenotypic features of BR91, a unique spirochaetal strain isolated from the Culex pipiens mosquito.
ByCanLyme Team December 14, 2013April 21, 2023
Sikutová S, Bunková L, Krejčí E, Halouzka J, Sanogo YO, Rudolf I. Source Institute of Vertebrate Biology, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Květná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic. Abstract Growth temperature range, resistance to selective antibiotics, activities of 23 enzymes, protein fingerprints and fatty acids composition of the spirochaetal strain BR91, isolated from the Culex pipiens…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Ottawa nurse must go to U.S. to seek Lyme disease treatment
ByCanLyme Team December 14, 2013April 21, 2023
Like most Lyme disease patients in Canada, Dawn Lavarnway doesn’t remember when she was bitten by the tick that gave her the crippling illness – but she knows when she found out Canada’s health system wouldn’t treat her for it. The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario nurse tried to book an appointment with an infectious…
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News and updates

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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

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

Crucial Player For Lyme Disease Transmission Identified

United States: Delegate Ramadan Announces $250,000 in Budget for Lyme Testing at George Mason University

York Region, Ontario: Vet urges caution following tick discovery

Mosquito’s? Selected phenotypic features of BR91, a unique spirochaetal strain isolated from the Culex pipiens mosquito.

Ottawa nurse must go to U.S. to seek Lyme disease treatment

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