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 bug stronger than antibiotics in animals and test tubes. Now study people.
[CanLyme note: This article supports the Canadian patient’s request of federal and provincial governments to stop blatantly endorsing the Infectious…
New study released from British Columbia supports what patient groups have been saying since 1989
[CanLyme Note: In a quick review of this newly published paper it both gave us hope that progress is slowly…
Selective Essential Oils from Spice or Culinary Herbs Have High Activity against Stationary Phase and Biofilm Borrelia burgdorferi
Front. Med., 11 October 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2017.00169 Jie Feng, Shuo Zhang, Wanliang Shi, Nevena Zubcevik, Judith Miklossy, Ying Zhang Although…
MacLean’s magazine: How the new impatient patient is disrupting medicine
Patient activists have never been as vocal. But are they truly being heard? Anne Kingston October 21, 2017In late…
Oakville, ON: Lyme disease panel discussion to take place Nov. 3, 2017
Encourage your physician to attend!! Speakers will be… Dr. Ralph Hawkins, Internal Medicine specialist, Calgary, AB Dr. Tim…
Prof. Christian Perronne, MD, PhD, outlines his history and the history of resistance within mainstream medicine regarding Lyme disease.
Christian Perronne, MD, PhD, is Professor of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine Paris-Ile de France-Ouest,…
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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Association of Lyme Disease and Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Type: Is it Inflammation Mediated?
Mattingley DW1, Koola MM2. Author information 1Doctor of Medicine Program, Saba University School of Medicine, Saba, Dutch Caribbean, Netherlands…
CTV Winnipeg: Lyme disease cases on the rise in Manitoba
Cheryl Holmes, CTV Winnipeg Published Friday, May 15, 2015 4:05PM CST It’s tick season in Manitoba and while many…
CHBC Global TV Okanagan: Two young men are on a cross country bike tour…
Two wonderful young men are on a cross country bike tour because their friend, Adelaine, was felled by Lyme…
Battle with Lyme disease changes life for Winnipeg girl
CBC News Posted: May 14, 2015 4:41 PM CT Brooke LePage used to be a competitive swimmer in Winnipeg,…
Watch news, Youtube, and view photos of Canada’s Ride For Lyme – The Adelaine Projetct
Watch video of the Ride For Lyme Click Here Watch CHEK news interview with Daniel and Tanner. Click Here…
In legislature, Ontario’s Minister of Health is pushed for action to include stakeholders in a new direction for Lyme disease
Watch as MPP Mike Mantha questions Minister, and Minister’s response. View here
Global News: Manitoba warns of Lyme risk
May 14th, 2015 WINNIPEG – Winnipeg City Hall will be lit in green Thursday to help raise awareness of…
Scientists finally figured out why you rarely get sick in the summer
Ever wonder where colds get their name? Or why we’re all coughs and sniffles during the winter but are…
Manitoba, CBC Radio: Lyme disease season is here, province warns to be on alert
[CanLyme note: In the CBC article it says that according to Manitoba Health, “It’s estimated that 70 to 80 per…