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
Popular Shrub Linked to Rising Rates of Lyme Disease in Ticks
[CanLyme note: Japanese barberry, an invasive plant, has been promoted as a decorative shrub for landscaping across Canada for many…
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Local tick reports up sharply over last year
[CanLyme note: This article says only one tick per year is testing positive for Lyme disease. Research has shown us…
Tips after Lyme Disease is in your system
From Toronto Sun Sept 23rd, 2017 “With the Public Health test, chronic sufferers like me can be misdiagnosed. Although…
YME SCI: What’s the story about stevia?
From Lymedisease.org – written by Lonnie Markum There has been a great deal of information circulating the internet about…
CBC News: High-risk areas for Lyme disease expand to include Moncton
By Joseph Tunney, September 22nd, 2017 Westmorland and Albert counties added to list that already includes Charlotte, Saint John…
Human seroprevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Manitoba, Canada, in 2011–2014: a cross-sectional study
[CanLyme Note: This is a very interesting and important study and we are pleased that this is being looked at…
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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More news
How one small bite can change a life
Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist May 10, 2015 Retired anesthesiologist Dr. Martin Rodgers was treated with two days’ worth…
ICI Radio-Canada; Maladie de lyme, augmentation rapide du nombre de cas de la maladie de lyme
May 8th, 2015 CBC Radio-Canada; Maladie de lyme, augmentation rapide du nombre de cas de la maladie de lyme…
Grandpa runs for Lyme disease – for his grandson
Watch touching video of a Grandpa who started running for Lyme on January 2nd, 2015 and has logged over…
ICI Radio-Canada; Maladie de lyme, augmentation rapide du nombre de cas de la maladie de lyme
May 8th, 2015 CBC Radio-Canada; Maladie de lyme, augmentation rapide du nombre de cas de la maladie de lyme…
ICI Radio Canada – CBC TV – Maladie de lyme
Ticks on the rise, human cases on the the rise. Watch TV segment
IDSA Ignores IOM Recommendations in Lyme Disease Treatment Guidelines’ Development, According to the Lyme Disease Association & LymeDisease.org
May 6, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — It’s been forty years since Lyme disease was first recognized in the US− when…
RHOBH star Yolanda Foster uses Stem Cells to fight Lyme disease
By LAUREL BROWN FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 22:53 GMT, 7 May 2015 | UPDATED: 22:59 GMT, 7 May 2015 For…
Cyclist riding across country to raise awareness of lyme disease
by Kendra Wong – Victoria New posted May 7, 2015 at 1:00 PM Two Ontario cyclists will be starting their…
Video, Penticton, BC – City declares May Lyme Disease awareness month and, mayor and council take the Lyme Sucks Challenge
Council proclaims May as Lyme awareness month, and, “Council sucks limes” for Lyme. For the video of the meeting…