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
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,…
Researcher says tick-borne disease Borrelia has grown exponentially in Finland
October 5th, 2017 New research finds that ticks are not only becoming more common in Finland but incidents of…
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 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…
Niagara, ON: ‘I want people to know about Lyme disease’
Smithville woman went three years before diagnosis Grimsby Lincoln News by Amanda Moore, May 13th, 2015 SMITHVILLE – Shortly…
Montérégie at epicentre of uptick in Lyme disease in Quebec
KATHERINE WILTON, MONTREAL GAZETTE Published on: May 13, 2015 Hikers heading to the mountains and forests in the Montérégie…
Dr. Ben Boucher discusses Lyme disease on CBC radio
May 8th, 2015 Dr. Ben Boucher is speaking at a Maritime Tick Conference in Moncton about the difficulty in…
Activists call for provincial Lyme disease strategy
May 6th, 2015 Jessica Bell from the Ontario Lyme Alliance and Jeanne Pacey who suffers from Lyme disease, spoke…