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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Medical Publications | Voices on Lyme
Lyme disease controversies over diagnosis, treatment at Canada’s first complex, chronic disease program clinic
ByCanLyme Team September 11, 2013April 21, 2023
By Pamela Fayerman Dr. Lucy Kinninmonth has been to about 20 different medical specialists in the past year, all of whom doubt she’s got chronic Lyme disease even though her symptoms, along with a blood test she had in the U.S., confirmed it, as far as she’s concerned. The Port Coquitlam veterinarian is now one of 650…
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Medical Publications | Research
In Vivo Expression Technology Identifies a Novel Virulence Factor
ByCanLyme Team September 10, 2013April 21, 2023
Authors: Ellis TC, Jain S, Linowski AK, Rike K, Bestor A, Rosa PA, Halpern M, Kurhanewicz S, Jewett MW Citation: PLoS Pathog. 2013(Aug); 9(8): e1003567. Location: Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, United States of America. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003567 Analysis of the transcriptome of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative…
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Medical Publications | Research
The immune system cannot generate immunological memory during infection with the Lyme disease agent B. burgdorferi
ByCanLyme Team September 6, 2013April 21, 2023
R.A. Elsner, S.W. Barthold, N. Baumgarth Graduate Group in Microbiology and the Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, USA In vertebrates including humans, mice and dogs, the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) causes a chronic, non-resolving infection known as Lyme disease, which requires antibiotic treatment to clear the bacteria. Re-infections are common in endemic regions. Similarly, mice…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Voices on Lyme
The Global Search for Education: France – Ticks …. Huffington Post
ByCanLyme Team September 6, 2013April 21, 2023
Author, C.M. Rubin: Lyme (Borreliosis), Anaplasmosis /Ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Bartonella, Tularemia, and more recently, Borrelia miyamotoi (a distant relative of Lyme Borreliosis) are recognized tick-borne infectious diseases in the United States among which the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that the number of Americans diagnosed with Lyme disease each year is…
Read More The Global Search for Education: France – Ticks …. Huffington Post
Research
Unique strains of Anaplasma phagocytophilum segregate among diverse questing and non-questing Ixodes tick species in the western United States
ByCanLyme Team September 4, 2013April 21, 2023
Abstract The emerging tick-borne pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum infects humans, domestic animals, and wildlife throughout the Holarctic. In the western US, the ecology of A. phagocytophilum is particularly complex, with multiple pathogen strains, tick vectors, and reservoir hosts. A recent phylogenetic analysis of A. phagocytophilum strains isolated from various small mammal hosts in California documented distinct…
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Government | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Voices on Lyme
Listen to Dr. Bonnie Henry, regarding the BC Clinic, completely ignore the vast patient group who do respond to longer term antibiotics
ByCanLyme Team September 3, 2013April 21, 2023
Listen to the many wobble words and phrases used by Dr. Bonnie Henry to discount the dramatic benefit to thousands of people with Lyme Disease who finally receive longer term (not lifetime) antibiotics. Keep’em sick she says… give those unfortunate castaways pain killers and nice talk. What tests have the BC CDC developed and where…
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Medical Publications
Patient only gets his life back after longer term antibiotic intervention, and another begins the treatment – watch their stories
ByCanLyme Team September 3, 2013April 21, 2023
‘You don’t have Lyme’, or, ‘those rogue doctors are going to harm you with those horrible antibiotics’, these are statements made by doctors frequently to patients who either have the positive test for Lyme disease or have all the clinical symptoms of the disease. The medical community is under-educated, overly misinformed intentionally by the medical…
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International News | Miscellaneous
Riot Grrrl Back From the Brink – Lyme Disease took her down for over 6 years
ByCanLyme Team September 3, 2013April 21, 2023
By MELENA RYZIK Published: September 1, 2013 in the New York Times Donating her file cabinet, full of old journals, letters and zines to New York University’s Fales Library archive was a bittersweet move for Kathleen Hanna. A singer and founder of the riot grrrl band Bikini Kill and the feminist electro-pop act Le Tigre,…
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Lyme in BC | Medical Publications | Voices on Lyme
CanLyme director David Cubberley speaks to CBC radio on the failings of the tax payer funded BC clinic
ByCanLyme Team September 2, 2013April 21, 2023
CanLyme director, David Cubberley, speaks to CBC radio on the failings of the Vancouver based BC Complex Chronic Disease Program situated at the BC Women’s Hospital. Listen here
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Lyme in BC | Voices on Lyme
Victoria Times Colonist: Lyme disease clinic a ‘waste’ group says
ByCanLyme Team August 29, 2013April 21, 2023
BC’s new complex chronic disease program is a “complete waste of time” for Lyme disease patients, says the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation. The foundation, which advocates for better testing, diagnosis and treatment, withdrew its endorsement of the program at BC Women’s Hospital on Wednesday. Read full article
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC | Medical Publications | Voices on Lyme
Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation withdraws endorsement of the Complex Chronic Disease Program at the BC Women’s Hospital.
ByCanLyme Team August 28, 2013April 21, 2023
Press release: August 28th, 2013 Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation withdraws endorsement of the Complex Chronic Disease Program at the BC Women’s Hospital. The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme) today announced it is withdrawing its support for the BC Complex Chronic Disease Clinic. The Clinic was initially proposed to address inadequate diagnostics and treatment for Lyme…
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Medical Publications | Research
The combined use of proton pump inhibitors and antibiotics as risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection
ByCanLyme Team August 28, 2013April 21, 2023
Healthcare Infection, 08/21/2013 Clinical Article Kassavin DS et al. – A review of the incidence of Clostridium. difficile infection (CDI) at the hospital was performed due to the morbidity of CDI in its fulminate form, reports of the increased incidence of CDI in the United States and the increased use of medications associated with its onset….
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Manitoba | Voices on Lyme
Medical abuse in Manitoba – a plea for sanity in a messed up system
ByCanLyme Team August 27, 2013April 21, 2023
This is a copy of a letter I was asked by Marie Hughes to write on her behalf. It was sent to every sitting member of the Manitoba legislature. I have Marie’s permission to publish it here. Manitoba Health July 22, 2013 Insured Benefits Branch 975 Henderson HWY Winnipeg, MB R2K 4L7 Att: xxxxxxxx…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Voices on Lyme
Lyme Disease: Spreading across Canada – The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
ByCanLyme Team August 24, 2013April 21, 2023
“It’s official. A March 2012 study confirmed that the tick that spreads lyme disease has been infiltrating Canada for the past 20 years. Despite this many Canadians still tell tales of years of misdiagnosis and mistreatment as doctors tell them that it just isn’t possible to contract lyme disease in this country.” Watch prevues with…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Research | Voices on Lyme
Lyme disease more common than previously thought [10 times more cases says US CDC putting number at 300,000 cases per year!]
ByCanLyme Team August 23, 2013April 21, 2023
ATLANTA August 19, 2013 (AP) By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer Lyme disease is about 10 times more common than previously reported, health officials said Monday. As many as 300,000 Americans are actually diagnosed with Lyme disease each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced. Usually, only 20,000 to 30,000 illnesses are…
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News and updates

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

Lyme disease controversies over diagnosis, treatment at Canada’s first complex, chronic disease program clinic

In Vivo Expression Technology Identifies a Novel Virulence Factor

The immune system cannot generate immunological memory during infection with the Lyme disease agent B. burgdorferi

The Global Search for Education: France – Ticks …. Huffington Post

Unique strains of Anaplasma phagocytophilum segregate among diverse questing and non-questing Ixodes tick species in the western United States

Listen to Dr. Bonnie Henry, regarding the BC Clinic, completely ignore the vast patient group who do respond to longer term antibiotics

Patient only gets his life back after longer term antibiotic intervention, and another begins the treatment – watch their stories

Riot Grrrl Back From the Brink – Lyme Disease took her down for over 6 years

CanLyme director David Cubberley speaks to CBC radio on the failings of the tax payer funded BC clinic

Victoria Times Colonist: Lyme disease clinic a ‘waste’ group says

Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation withdraws endorsement of the Complex Chronic Disease Program at the BC Women’s Hospital.

The combined use of proton pump inhibitors and antibiotics as risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection

Medical abuse in Manitoba – a plea for sanity in a messed up system

Lyme Disease: Spreading across Canada – The Nature of Things with David Suzuki

Lyme disease more common than previously thought [10 times more cases says US CDC putting number at 300,000 cases per year!]

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