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
Lyme disease in North America for 20,000 years
Lyme bacteria settled in North America far earlier than we thought While the Lyme disease outbreak in people dates…
Interview: The flawed science behind the current global Lyme policies, diagnostics and treatment
Posted on on-lyme.org Dec 2nd, 2017 Written by Huib Holly Ahern is a professor of microbiology as well as the…
‘Every season is tick season’: Experts warn of winter Lyme disease risk [bitten while xmas tree hunting]
[CanLyme Note: Ticks are active in temperatures of minus 4 degrees Celsius and above] November 22, 2017 by Marina von…
Towards a Better Understanding of the Brain and Body Interaction
“It is all in your head”. An assessment that is all too familiar to many patients with little understood…
New research shows risk for Lyme borreliosis in cities is much the same as in forested areas.
[CanLyme note: This should be done in Canadian cities] Published Nov. 21, 2017 Parasites and Vectors Ticks and the city…
Lawsuit: Insurance companies conspiring with physician members of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
November 19th, 2017 Lynne LaRowe Texackana Gazette Major health insurance companies are accused of putting profits over patients suffering…
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
Watch out in the woods: Tick season peaks in Alberta
LETHBRIDGE – Ticks are little bugs that can cause big problems. The small spider-like animals bite people and pets…
Infection Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ticks Collected from Songbirds in Far-Western Canada
Authors: John D. Scott, Lance A. Durden, John F. Anderson AbstractWorldwide, wild birds play a vital role in the…
Commentary: Diagnosis, treatment of Lyme Disease controversial
May 24, 2015 12:15 am By Prof. Holly Ahern The recent letter to the editor by Lauren Meilhede, M.D.…
Fellow Lyme disease sufferer bakes up help for Paige
BY SUE-ANN LEVY, TORONTO SUN May 26, 2015 TORONTO – I heard from Veronique Ayling first thing on the Sunday morning…
From urine therapy to vitamins: study warns of untested Lyme disease ‘cures’
[CanLyme note: What is not addressed in this article below is that if patients were being properly handled within the…
Australia ticked off by Lyme disease
May 23, 2015 Sufferers are still fighting to have Lyme disease, contracted from ticks, recognised in Australia. In…
THE NEW HYPOTHESIS, A CONNECTION WITH CHRONIC LYME DISEASE
[CanLyme note: The United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) should never be left as the ‘final word’ on…