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Huffington Post: The Global Search for Education: Canada – Ticks
ByCanLyme Team August 1, 2013April 21, 2023
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 and Prevention (CDC) claims Lyme disease is the most common and fastest growing illness. The CDC has…
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Lyme in Ontario | Voices on Lyme
Global TV News – Ticks carrying Lyme on the rise
ByCanLyme Team July 31, 2013April 21, 2023
Fri, Jul 26: Black-legged ticks are crawling into parts of Ontario. Marianne Dimain reports Watch Global News story
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International News | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
Worker links motor neuron disease to work-related Lyme disease – awarded compensation
ByCanLyme Team July 29, 2013April 21, 2023
https://www.riskandinsurance.com/story.jsp?storyId=533354603 In New York, a worker bears the burden of presenting competent medical evidence establishing a causal relationship between his employment and disability. Case name: Bailey v. Ben Ciccone, Inc., et al., No. 515309 (N.Y. App. Div. 03/14/13). Ruling: The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division held that a worker was entitled to additional…
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International News | Medical Publications | Research
Black-legged ticks linked to encephalitis in New York state
ByCanLyme Team July 28, 2013April 21, 2023
IMAGE:This image shows tick surveying with a drag cloth. Click here for more information. Researchers urge citizens and healthcare providers to be vigilant The number of tick-borne illnesses reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on the rise. Lyme disease leads the pack, with some 35,000 cases reported annually. In…
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Medical Publications | Research
Pathogenic analysis of Borrelia garinii strain SZ isolated from northeastern China
ByCanLyme Team July 28, 2013April 21, 2023
BACKGROUND: Various genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) have been identified from patients and animals worldwide. Genospecies-related dissemination of disease has been reported. The present study aimed to elucidate the pathogenicity of infections caused by B. garinii SZ isolated in China. B. burgdorferi B31 and B. afzelii BO23 were used for comparison. METHODS: Spirochete…
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Voices on Lyme
Canadian lawyer Paul Haefling speaks on Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team July 27, 2013April 21, 2023
Testing in Canada is not good, the government of Ontario is well aware of that fact yet they imposed the same old criteria on the province. Go to https://odjradio.com/outdoor-journal-july-20-2013/ and scroll down to where you see Podcast. Select download which gives you an audio player. Once it is up and ready to play move the player…
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International News | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous
New Insights Into How Antibiotics Damage Human Cells Suggest Novel Strategies for Making Long-Term Antibiotic Use Safer
ByCanLyme Team July 27, 2013April 21, 2023
July 3, 2013 – A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has discovered why long-term treatment with many common antibiotics can cause harmful side effects — and they have uncovered two easy strategies that could help prevent these dangerous responses. They reported the results in the July…
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Medical Publications | Research
Heart stopping tick – case report
ByCanLyme Team July 27, 2013April 21, 2023
Authors: Karmacharya P, Aryal MR Location: Department of Medicine, Reading Health System, West Reading, PA 19611, United States. Citation: World J Cardiol 2013(May); 5(5): 148-150. DOI: 10.4330/wjc.v5.i5.148 Although Lyme carditis is relatively rare within 4-6 wk of exposure, it can uncommonly present as the first sign of disseminated Lyme disease. Here we present 17 year…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Voices on Lyme
Researchers strive for vaccine against tick-borne diseases
ByCanLyme Team July 17, 2013April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: notice that most USA National Institute of Health funding only goes to find a way of monetizing Lyme disease so that companies can profit off of the sick. Virtually no research is funded to identify the prevalence in the current population of the chronically ill, who have been given everything but a Lyme…
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Australia: Federal Government sets up Committee to Investigate Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team July 16, 2013April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: the oldest tactic used in Lyme disease misinformation proliferation is; from country to country each of the country’s medical “leadership” state that all cases have occurred elsewhere, never in their country. That is nonsense, and they will go to great lengths to make these unfounded, unproven statements because they ‘can and will’ only positively confirm those cases that have…
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Conferences | For Physicians | Medical Publications | Research
Lyme Disease Think Tank, British Columbia’s Women’s Hospital Complex Chronic Disease Program, Vancouver, BC Canada
ByCanLyme Team July 16, 2013April 21, 2023
On April 13th, 2013, a one day Think Tank was held for the medical professionals at the BC Women’s Hospital invloved with the Complex Chronic disease Program headed by Medical Director, Dr. Alison Bested. Here are YouTube presentations of each of the presenters at the symposium; 1) Dr. Alison Bested’s opening remarks including the introduction…
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International News | Medical Publications | Research
Exclusive: Encephalitis virus found in local ticks
ByCanLyme Team July 15, 2013April 21, 2023
First there was Lyme disease. Then came two malaria-like infectious diseases, babesiosis and anaplasmosis. Now a new study indicates that an unexpectedly high percentage of black-legged ticks in the mid-Hudson Valley also carry a virus that can cause swelling of the brain and, in some cases, death. The study, published today in the journal Parasites…
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CNN : Why you should be afraid of Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team July 13, 2013April 21, 2023
Editor’s note: Pamela Weintraub is the author of “Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic” (St. Martin’s Press), winner of the 2009 American Medical Writers Association book award, and executive editor of Discover magazine. Follow her on Twitter: @pam3001 (CNN) — Our nightmare began in 1993 after we moved from the city to a house down…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in BC
Environmentalist gets results through persistent pursuit of documents
ByCanLyme Team July 8, 2013April 21, 2023
VANCOUVER – The Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Jul. 07 2013, 10:00 PM EDT As a child, Gwen Barlee learned the value of digging deeper, but it was not until she grew up and began to investigate government that her perseverance really paid off. Ms. Barlee, policy director of the Wilderness Committee, has carved out…
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Lyme Controversy | Media | Voices on Lyme
CanLyme president, Jim Wilson speaks to Canada AM, CTV’s national news show, about Lyme disease.
ByCanLyme Team July 8, 2013April 21, 2023
Patients have to go to United States just to get a proper diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. Too few voices are allowed to direct health care policy while excluding the victims and their experts. Watch the TV interview
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Huffington Post: The Global Search for Education: Canada – Ticks

Global TV News – Ticks carrying Lyme on the rise

Worker links motor neuron disease to work-related Lyme disease – awarded compensation

Black-legged ticks linked to encephalitis in New York state

Pathogenic analysis of Borrelia garinii strain SZ isolated from northeastern China

Canadian lawyer Paul Haefling speaks on Lyme disease

New Insights Into How Antibiotics Damage Human Cells Suggest Novel Strategies for Making Long-Term Antibiotic Use Safer

Heart stopping tick – case report

Researchers strive for vaccine against tick-borne diseases

Australia: Federal Government sets up Committee to Investigate Lyme disease

Lyme Disease Think Tank, British Columbia’s Women’s Hospital Complex Chronic Disease Program, Vancouver, BC Canada

Exclusive: Encephalitis virus found in local ticks

CNN : Why you should be afraid of Lyme disease

Environmentalist gets results through persistent pursuit of documents

CanLyme president, Jim Wilson speaks to Canada AM, CTV’s national news show, about Lyme disease.

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