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FOIA request to CDC took five years to fulfill … corruption
ByCanLyme Team May 24, 2013April 21, 2023
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers itself to be one of the nation’s foremost scientific institutions, dedicated to transparency and evidence-driven policies. It is fair, therefore, to ask this question: What happens when the CDC brazenly ignores the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), taking more than five years to fulfill a journalist’s information…
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Lyme in BC | Miscellaneous | News from CanLyme | Voices on Lyme
Woman is finally able to put name to debilitating disease
ByCanLyme Team May 24, 2013April 21, 2023
Tsawwassen resident Karen Marchand says she used to pride herself on being a healthy person, but all that changed a few years ago. In late 2008, she began suffering from a range of symptoms – back pain as well as ear and throat infections. “Just all these things started happening,” she says. Then, in January…
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Events | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous
Lyme Disease Association holding informational event in Fort Erie [Ontario,Canada]
ByCanLyme Team May 23, 2013April 21, 2023
A tick can get under your skin without it even being realized for months and sometimes years. May is a month dedicated to raising awareness about Lyme Disease and Fort Erie resident Melissa Hodges-Young, who is involved with the recently-founded Niagara Area Chapter of the Lyme Disease Association of Ontario, wants the public to know…
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Voices on Lyme
B.C. Canada: Woman’s mystery illness leads to Lyme disease diagnosis
ByCanLyme Team May 23, 2013April 21, 2023
Sitting in a dark room at Little House Society in Tsawwassen, Karen Marchand speaks slowly and with great apparent effort, trying desperately to concentrate on articulating each word. She is describing the last four and a half years of her life, one racked with excruciating pain and confusion over how she contracted a rarely talked…
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Lyme in New Brunswick | News from CanLyme | Voices on Lyme
New Brunswicker tackles Lyme disease issues
ByCanLyme Team May 23, 2013April 21, 2023
Stephanie Stoneleigh… “Just want you to know I have sent this letter this morning to about 75 contacts in hopes that they will sign the Petition put forward by Randy Hillier, M.P.P” …. Dear Friends, Relatives and Co-Workers in my Health Battle: I need to let you know that I am sending this email…
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Lyme in New Brunswick | Voices on Lyme
Time Canadian Medicare system woke up … letter to editor
ByCanLyme Team May 23, 2013April 21, 2023
New Brunswick resident Stephanie Stoneleigh has had enough and wants the News Brunswick health care system to wake up to the fact that Lyme disease is occuring in numbers far above what is being reported. Her published letter to the editor spells out the issues. Read full letter
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Miscellaneous
Winnipeg Free Press: Tick season means pets at risk of Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team May 23, 2013April 21, 2023
It’s roughly the size of the nail on your pinky finger, but it can pose a huge threat to you and your pets. Ladies and gentlemen, meet ixodes scapularis, better known in Manitoba as the blacklegged tick, a creepy little bloodsucker with the potential to spread Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that typically resides in…
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Government reports & letters | Lyme in Alberta | Medical Publications | News from CanLyme
Alberta: Province expands tick surveillance program
ByCanLyme Team May 20, 2013April 21, 2023
Albertans have been asked to keep their eyes peeled for a little black bug over the next few months, one that likes to hitch a ride on your canine companion. The Alberta government has recently expanded its tick surveillance program, asking individuals to submit ticks they find to the nearest participating environmental public health office,…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Research | Voices on Lyme
Psychiatric guidelines under attack – driven by drug companies
ByCanLyme Team May 19, 2013April 21, 2023
OUR POLITICIANS CAN STOP THIS NONSENSE IF SO MOTIVATED AND NOT DOING THE DRUG COMPANY’S BIDDING. DEMAND THE VICTIM’S EXPERTS, APPOINTED BY THE VICTIMS, BE THE ULTIMATE APPROVAL BODY OF ANY HEALTH RELATED GUIDELINES FOR ANY CONDITION, ILLNESS, OR DISEASE. ALL EVIDENCE BASED, PEER REVIEWED SCIENCE MUST BE LOOKED AT, NOT ONLY THAT WHICH IS DESIGNED…
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Government | International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Voices on Lyme
US group calling for congressional investigation of the US Center for Disease Control, IDSA, and NIH.
ByCanLyme Team May 19, 2013April 21, 2023
This is a much needed investigation and is gaining rapid support throughout the USA… Canada SHOULD WE BE NEXT? …. ie; investigating our quasi-governmental policy setters; PCPHN (Pan-Canadian Public Health Network), CPHLN (Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network – who report to the PCPHN – who report to the Conference of federal/provincial/territorial Deputy Ministers of Health), and investigate the AMMI (Association of Medical Microbiologists…
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Government | International News | Medical Publications | Voices on Lyme
Delays, Deceit, and Nonsense – US CDC took 5 years to act on Freedom of Information request re: Lyme disease gov’t emails
ByCanLyme Team May 19, 2013April 21, 2023
… “Newby believes the delays were related to the documents’ content, which, she said, “reveal a disturbing picture of a quasi-governmental group … setting Lyme disease policy and a national research agenda without public oversight or transparency.” Read full article
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Events | Lyme in Alberta | News from CanLyme | Voices on Lyme
Calgary – CBC: Langevin Bridge will go green for Lyme awareness
ByCanLyme Team May 19, 2013April 21, 2023
Calgary’s Langevin Bridge will turn green Saturday night to raise awareness for Lyme disease. The first World Lyme Disease Day was held on May 11th and landmarks across Canada have been joining in on the awareness efforts by turning on green lights. The CN Tower went green last Saturday and Niagara Falls will go green…
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Events | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Voices on Lyme
Resident gets ticked off by government inaction
ByCanLyme Team May 14, 2013April 21, 2023
In Canada, if a dog contacts Lyme disease, it has a far better chance of receiving timely diagnosis and treatment, whereas humans have to scramble to the U.S, says Marlene Spies, a Brampton Lyme disease patient. Canadians travel to the south of the border as “protocol tests” in Canada are not sensitive enough. Even though…
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Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Ottawa… Fighting Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme Team May 13, 2013April 21, 2023
A small bug is causing big problems for hundreds of Canadians. The deer tick can carry bacteria that cause Lyme disease. If it’s caught early, Lyme disease is very treatable. But that’s the problem; it sometimes goes undiagnosed and Canadians who are very sick with this disease say they are being told it is all…
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Events | Lyme in BC
Lyme disaease awareness boosted with Victoria events
ByCanLyme Team May 4, 2013April 21, 2023
By Staff Writer – Victoria News Published: May 02, 2013 4:00 PM Updated: May 02, 2013 4:40 PM A pair of events hosted by Lyme disease awareness advocates next week aim to get information out about the rare and often hard-to-diagnose affliction. A free screening of the film Under Our Skin: The Untold Story…
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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

FOIA request to CDC took five years to fulfill … corruption

Woman is finally able to put name to debilitating disease

Lyme Disease Association holding informational event in Fort Erie [Ontario,Canada]

B.C. Canada: Woman’s mystery illness leads to Lyme disease diagnosis

New Brunswicker tackles Lyme disease issues

Time Canadian Medicare system woke up … letter to editor

Winnipeg Free Press: Tick season means pets at risk of Lyme disease

Alberta: Province expands tick surveillance program

Psychiatric guidelines under attack – driven by drug companies

US group calling for congressional investigation of the US Center for Disease Control, IDSA, and NIH.

Delays, Deceit, and Nonsense – US CDC took 5 years to act on Freedom of Information request re: Lyme disease gov’t emails

Calgary – CBC: Langevin Bridge will go green for Lyme awareness

Resident gets ticked off by government inaction

Ottawa… Fighting Lyme Disease

Lyme disaease awareness boosted with Victoria events

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