Welcome to the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation
The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme) was created to promote a more complete and comprehensive understanding of Lyme disease and related illnesses through research, education and advocacy to help reduce misdiagnosis and improve treatments for Lyme disease.
Get help for Lyme
Recognizing symptoms and learning how to talk to your doctor are the first steps towards treatment.
Learn more about Lyme
Understanding Lyme disease is the best way to prevent, diagnose and treat it.
Get the facts
Get the facts on ticks and tick-borne diseases. There are many myths!
Recent dispatches
A special thank you to CanLyme volunteers, Sue and Gary McDougall
From videography, to Lyme prevention education and tick kit fulfillment – they’ve done it all.
The U.S. is improving its tick surveillance programs. But they still paint an incomplete picture as Lyme cases mount
Mapping of disease-causing ticks is ‘currently insufficient,’ new report says.
Manitoba Lyme cases far higher than official count, study finds
Lyme is widely recognized as an underreported illness. For example, a 2015 American study shows cases in the U.S.…
Incidence and economic cost of Lyme disease cases in Canada given climate change projections
Grappling with the challenge of estimating future Lyme disease incidence and economic costs for the 21st century with projected…
Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in Canada 2009-2019
While the current numbers likely underrepresent the number of people living with Lyme disease in Canada, it is still…
Exploring how environmental factors might relate to the presence of pathogen-carrying ticks
The work of understanding why some ticks carry pathogens and others do not, while not straightforward, is important.
Where there are ticks, there’s often Lyme disease
Lyme disease is caused by an infection that is most often transmitted by ticks, but it can also be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy.
Ticks can attach to your body without being seen or felt, and diagnosis can be difficult due to symptom presentation, testing protocols and other challenges.
Learn to protect yourself
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Why Canadian public healthcare fails Lyme patients and why they seek treatment elsewhere
Promoting Canadian research and researchers.
CanLyme: 20 years of Canadian advocacy
Looking back at two decades of advocacy and education; looking forward to the road ahead.
Lyme disease and POTS
POTS is recognized by some clinicians as a contributor to persistent Lyme disease symptoms but more research is needed.
Canadian researchers discover tick repelling chemicals secreted by ants
A synthetic version has been developed and may lead to new tick repellent products.
Protein found in human sweat inhibits growth of Lyme bacteria
Satu Strausz of Finland leads international group exploring biobank, in vitro, and murine research.
New research looks into long Covid and chronic Lyme disease
Researchers at MIT are thinking outside the box with a new long Covid, chronic Lyme disease study. Dr. Mikki…
Diagnosis and treatment of Lyme carditis
Understanding the risks, manifestations and clinical management of Lyme carditis can save lives and prevent invasive medical and surgical…
Research priorities of patients with Lyme disease in pregnancy
Canadian study explores patient concerns and identifies maternal-fetal Lyme research priorities.