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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…
Read More An excellent article… a must read from Lil Anderson in the Lake of the Woods Area News, Western Ontario, Canada
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…
Read More Huffington Post series on Lyme Disease: The Global Search for Education: Research – Ticks
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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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…
Read More Lyme disease controversies over diagnosis, treatment at Canada’s first complex, chronic disease program clinic
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…
Read More The immune system cannot generate immunological memory during infection with the Lyme disease agent B. burgdorferi
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…
Read More Unique strains of Anaplasma phagocytophilum segregate among diverse questing and non-questing Ixodes tick species in the western United States
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…
Read More Listen to Dr. Bonnie Henry, regarding the BC Clinic, completely ignore the vast patient group who do respond to longer term antibiotics
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…
Read More Patient only gets his life back after longer term antibiotic intervention, and another begins the treatment – watch their stories
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,…
Read More Riot Grrrl Back From the Brink – Lyme Disease took her down for over 6 years
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
Read More CanLyme director David Cubberley speaks to CBC radio on the failings of the tax payer funded BC clinic
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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News and updates

One year later: How the landmark NASEM report on chronic Lyme is – and isn’t – changing minds

Germs spread by ticks and cats found in suicidal youth

Scholarship opportunity for undergraduates with a project focused on Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases

Living with persistent illness and uncertainty: Patient narratives on Lyme disease in Nova Scotia, Canada

Lyme disease is becoming one of Canada’s defining climate-health challenges

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

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

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

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