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.

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Recognizing symptoms and learning how to talk to your doctor are the first steps towards treatment.

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Understanding Lyme disease is the best way to prevent, diagnose and treat it.

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Get the facts on ticks and tick-borne diseases. There are many myths! 

Recent dispatches

Canadian Lyme Consortium makes announcement to Lyme community

ByCanLymeFeb 6, 20183 min read

February 6th, 2018 On behalf of a growing team of scientists, advocates, and clinicians, we wanted to let you…

Canadian Lyme Consortium envoie un message à la communauté de la maladie de Lyme

ByCanLymeFeb 6, 20183 min read

6 février 2018 Au nom d’une équipe grandissante de scientifiques, de défenseurs et de cliniciens, nous tenons à vous…

Cranial neuropathy and severe pain due to early disseminated Borrelia burgdorferi infection

ByCanLymeJan 28, 20182 min read

Published January 23rd, 2018 doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-223307 [CanLyme Note: What is sick about this case report is that this man’s health outcome, which…

An Unusual Cluster of Neuroinvasive Lyme Disease Cases Presenting With Bannwarth Syndrome in the Midwest United States

ByCanLymeJan 27, 20182 min read

[CanLyme note:  This statement, “Garin-Bujadoux-Bannwarth syndrome (Bannwarth syndrome [BWS]) is an uncommon manifestation of neuroinvasive Lyme disease (LD) caused by…

Human seroprevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Manitoba, Canada, in 2011-2014: a cross-sectional study.

ByCanLymeJan 27, 20182 min read

CMAJ Open. 2017 Sep 6;5(3):E690-E693. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20170070. Kadkhoda K, et al Abstract BACKGROUND: Hard tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia…

France – Maladie de Lyme: 300 malades vont déposer plainte au pénal dès janvier

ByCanLymeJan 23, 20181 min read

Dec 20, 2017 300 personnes atteintes de la maladie de Lyme vont porter plainte au pénal, début janvier. Des…

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. 

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More news

Victoria, BC: 19 year old Victoria teen has fought Lyme Disease for 6 years

ByCanLyme TeamJun 22, 20152 min read

[CanLyme note:  Yet another case with eerily similar symptoms and circumstances to the others reported over the past few…

Springhill, NS: Ticks become talk at Springhill search and rescue hall

ByCanLyme TeamJun 22, 20151 min read

June 22nd, 2015 by Christopher Gooding SPRINGHILL – It’s enough to make anyone want to stay out of the…

COMMUNIQUÉ : Quebec – La maladie de Lyme

ByCanLymeJun 18, 20151 min read

COMMUNIQUÉ IL EST URGENT D’AGIR! La maladie de Lyme est en progression constante chez les humains et les animaux…

Chronic persistent late Lyme disease not a new phenomenon

ByCanLyme TeamJun 18, 20152 min read

Chronic Lyme borreliosis in the laboratory mouse. Am J Pathol. 1993 Sep; 143(3): 959–971 Abstract C3H/HeJ mice were inoculated…

COMMUNIQUÉ : Quebec – La maladie de Lyme

ByCanLyme TeamJun 18, 20151 min read

COMMUNIQUÉ IL EST URGENT D’AGIR! La maladie de Lyme est en progression constante chez les humains et les animaux…

How to Protect Horses From Lyme Disease

ByCanLyme TeamJun 17, 20151 min read

By Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc June 17, 2015 The Horse magazine Spring has sprung … and so have the…

Read all Lyme disease presentations to the Ontario legislative committee on Bill 27 – June 1st, 2015

ByCanLyme TeamJun 17, 20152 min read

Committee Transcripts: Standing Committee on Social Policy – 2015-Jun-01 – Bill 27, Provincial Framework and Action Plan concerning Emerging…

Cyclists pair take on Lyme Disease as they bike across Canada

ByCanLyme TeamJun 16, 20151 min read

Peterborough, ON, Canada / (CHEXTV) Aileen Doyle June 16, 2015 11:14 pm It is a long journey but one…

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ByCanLyme TeamJun 16, 20151 min read

By Alexa Tsoulis-Reay “Dr. Neil Spector, a 58-year-old associate professor of medicine at Duke University, spoke with Science of…