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Ontario: Chatham – Kent area health units seeing increase in tick submissions
ByCanLyme Team October 18, 2013April 21, 2023
By Ellwood Shreve, Chatham Daily News Thursday, October 17, 2013 6:38:48 EDT PM Chatham-Kent has seen an increase in reported human cases of Lyme disease, compared to other areas in the region. There has been four confirmed cases of Lyme disease in Chatham-Kent so far this year with another case still under investigation. This is up…
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Featured | Lyme Controversy | Voices on Lyme
Researcher John Scott responds to The Nature of Things CBC TV episode on Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team October 16, 2013April 21, 2023
xxxxxxxxxx xxxxx, Ontario Sue Dando Executive Producer Science and Natural History Unit CBC-TV Documentary Canadian Broadcasting Corporation P.O. Box 500, Station A Toronto, Ontario M5W 1E6 15 October 2013 Dear Ms. Dando: Re: The Nature of Things with Dr. David Suzuki Ticked-off: The Mystery of Lyme Disease, 10 October 2013 …
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Government | Voices on Lyme
Why we need a national Lyme disease strategy
ByCanLyme Team October 9, 2013April 21, 2023
by Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada I know a health policy briefing should touch on all areas of health policy. We have critical issues ahead as we work to protect universal access to top-notch health care, reduce wait-times and drug costs, and meet the growing challenges of an aging population. The deficits in our…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Research
Fecal Transplant, Now in Pill Form [C. difficile is often touted as the reason to withold anitibiotics in Lyme patients, now perhaps that low risk approaches zero]
ByCanLyme Team October 3, 2013April 21, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO — Gel caps containing concentrated fecal microbes stopped recurrent Clostridium difficile infection and were well-tolerated by recipients, researchers reported here. Among patients with more than three episodes of recurrent C. difficile infection who could not tolerate jejunal catheter or suffered anal incontinence, a single dose of an oral suspension of fecal microbes delivered through several dozen 0.47…
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Miscellaneous
Manitoba – Province identifies new Lyme disease risk areas – CTV News
ByCanLyme Team September 26, 2013April 21, 2023
CTV Winnipeg Published Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:16PM CST Last Updated Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:29PM CST Manitoba Health has identified new and expanded Lyme disease risk areas in the province. The areas were identified through an annual blacklegged tick surveillance program. The province said Lyme disease transmission is highest where blacklegged ticks are most…
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Medical Publications | Research
The Open Neurology Journal – Lyme Disease Compendium
ByCanLyme Team September 24, 2013April 21, 2023
Read many peer reviewed published articles/papers on Lyme Disease. Read articles here
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Research
A phylogenomic and molecular signature based approach for characterization of the phylum Spirochaetes and its major clades: proposal for a taxonomic revision of the phylum
ByCanLyme Team September 18, 2013April 21, 2023
The Spirochaetes species cause many important diseases including syphilis and Lyme disease. Except for their containing a distinctive endoflagella, no other molecular or biochemical characteristics are presently known that are specific for either all Spirochaetes or its different families. We report detailed comparative and phylogenomic analyses of protein sequences from Spirochaetes genomes to understand their…
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Government | Lyme Controversy | Media | Medical Publications | News from CanLyme | Voices on Lyme
TICKED OFF: THE MYSTERY OF LYME DISEASE
ByCanLyme Team September 18, 2013April 21, 2023
On Thursday, October 10th, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki aired their episode on Lyme disease. https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/ticked-off-the-mystery-of-lyme-disease (only available for viewing inside Canada) We have had many comments while others have offered comments at the above link. The general consensus is that if any rational person watched Dr. Gary Wormser from the Infectious Disease…
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Lyme in BC | Medical Publications | Research | Voices on Lyme
Small but deadly
ByCanLyme Team September 17, 2013April 21, 2023
CBC radio’s, On The Island,with Gregor Craigie British Columbia, Sept.17th, 2013 The number of ticks and the number of people getting sick from ticks is on the rise. We hear more from. We speak to a graduate student who studies the relationship between ticks and humans. Listen to the podcast. Send feedback to https://www.cbc.ca/ontheisland/contact/
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Research
Chromosome Sequence of Borrelia miyamotoi, an Uncultivable Tick-Borne Agent of Human Infection.
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2013April 21, 2023
Hue F, Ghalyanchi Langeroudi A, Barbour AG.Genome Announcements. 2013 Sep 12;1(5). pii: e00713-13. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00713-13 Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is a newly recognized agent of human disease. B. miyamotoi strain LB-2001, an isolate from the tick Ixodes scapularis, was propagated in mice. The sequence of the chromosome was determined by next-generation sequencing of DNA isolated from whole…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Voices on Lyme
New Hope for Sufferers of Chronic Disease [is questioned] – Global TV Vancouver
ByCanLyme Team September 14, 2013April 21, 2023
For those within the Chronic Disease Syndrome/ME and fibromyalgia community there was some relief expressed in that finally their diagnosis is being legitimized. This will be one more step in helping with disability claims for conditions that have all too often been labelled as somatoform or, all in the head. The clinic came about as…
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Featured | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
An excellent article… a must read from Lil Anderson in the Lake of the Woods Area News, Western Ontario, Canada
ByCanLyme Team September 13, 2013April 21, 2023
Lyme disease: A growing concern Story and photos by Lil Anderson [Special thanks to Lake of the Woods Area News and Lil Anderson] The first I heard of Lyme Disease might be of concern in the Lake of the Woods area was in the early ’90’s. At that time, Dr. John Scott from the Lyme-Borreliosis…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Research | Voices on Lyme
Huffington Post series on Lyme Disease: The Global Search for Education: Research – Ticks
ByCanLyme Team September 13, 2013April 21, 2023
Part 10 in series on the Global Lyme Disease Discussion Borrelia burgdorferi cultivated from the brains of patients suffering from chronic Lyme neuroborreliosis as seen by dark field microscopy Given that according to the CDC, there are 300,000 individuals who are affected annually by Lyme disease in the US, it is astonishing that so…
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Conferences | Medical Publications
ILADS 15th Annual Lyme Disease Conference – North America
ByCanLyme Team September 12, 2013April 21, 2023
Lyme and Tick Borne Disease Conference Objective To provide physicians and other medical practitioners with insight into recent developments in the understanding of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, and to provide basic tools and strategies for counseling prevention, and for diagnosing and treating these diseases. Conference Description and Goals To provide a historical perspective…
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Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Think You’re Allergic to Penicillin? You Might Think Again
ByCanLyme Team September 11, 2013April 21, 2023
Jeffrey Kopman Published: Sep 10, 2013, 11:46 AM EDT weather.com A late-summer hike results in tired legs, a sweaty body and a tick bite. The feeding tick infects you with Lyme disease, but your treatment options are limited because you had an allergic reaction to penicillin as a child. This dilemma is fairly common –…
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News and updates

Announcing the second annual Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference

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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

Ontario: Chatham – Kent area health units seeing increase in tick submissions

Researcher John Scott responds to The Nature of Things CBC TV episode on Lyme disease

Why we need a national Lyme disease strategy

Fecal Transplant, Now in Pill Form [C. difficile is often touted as the reason to withold anitibiotics in Lyme patients, now perhaps that low risk approaches zero]

Manitoba – Province identifies new Lyme disease risk areas – CTV News

The Open Neurology Journal – Lyme Disease Compendium

A phylogenomic and molecular signature based approach for characterization of the phylum Spirochaetes and its major clades: proposal for a taxonomic revision of the phylum

TICKED OFF: THE MYSTERY OF LYME DISEASE

Small but deadly

Chromosome Sequence of Borrelia miyamotoi, an Uncultivable Tick-Borne Agent of Human Infection.

New Hope for Sufferers of Chronic Disease [is questioned] – Global TV Vancouver

An excellent article… a must read from Lil Anderson in the Lake of the Woods Area News, Western Ontario, Canada

Huffington Post series on Lyme Disease: The Global Search for Education: Research – Ticks

ILADS 15th Annual Lyme Disease Conference – North America

Think You’re Allergic to Penicillin? You Might Think Again

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