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.
Learn more about Lyme
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
Two women joined in a mission to learn more about a still misunderstood condition
[CanLyme Note: CanLyme and the G Magnotta Foundation for Vector Borne Diseases have worked together for 5 years to bring…
Stevia could offer cure for Lyme disease, researchers say
Published July 12th, 2017 Stevia, a common coffee sweetener, could be a possible cure for Lyme disease after tests…
Human Rights Violations of Relapsing Fever and Lyme Disease Patients Under International Investigation
[CanLyme Note: CanLyme was approached by Jenna Luché-Thayer early this year after her finding out that the World Health…
Global News: Lone Star ticks that cause red meat allergies are on their way to Canada
Jun 27th, 2017 By Carmen Chai It looks like Lyme disease isn’t the only thing Canadians need to worry…
Vancouver Sun: Longtime B.C. environmental activist Gwen Barlee dies of cancer
[CanLyme Note: Gwen contracted Lyme disease many years ago and was a well spoken activist who despised the double-talk and…
CTV News Toronto: Students warned because ticks are found at schools.
Kids picking up ticks at schools. Not only found in wooded areas. This further emphasizes that the over emphasis…
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
Case report: Mother to fetus transmission of Babesia, a tick-borne infection
The Anemic and Thrombocytopenic Febrile Neonate Nickolas D. Surra, MD, John E. Jesus, MD Christiana Care Health Center, Newark,…
Press Release: CROSS CANADA BIKE RIDE FOR LYME DISEASE
St. CATHARINES, ON – APRIL 15, 2015 – At sunrise on May 11, 2015, Niagara natives, 22 year old…
Squirrels ‘host Lyme disease bugs’
Tuesday 21 April 2015 Grey squirrels are in the dock again – this time for harbouring a serious infection…
Lyme Patient Advocates Denounce Intellectual Conflicts of Interest for Seven IDSA Guidelines Review Panelists
Arlington, VA – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 The Mayday Project–a volunteer organization comprised of those touched by…
Relying on a negative Lyme test can prove deadly. Dr. Dan Cameron
In August of 2013, a 17-year-old boy died suddenly from cardiac arrest. Initially, health officials blamed the Powassan virus…
MacLean’s Magazine: Could Canada cause multiple sclerosis?
[CanLyme Note: Many decades of research, prior to MS being too simply labeled an ‘autoimmune’ disease, showed convincingly that spirochetal…
LYME AND MS HAVING THE SAME ETIOLOGY – Kathy Cavert
LYME AND MS HAVING THE SAME ETIOLOGY From: jwissmille [at] aol [dot] com (JWissmille) Newsgroups: sci.med.diseases.lyme Subject: MS or…
Search and Rescue respond to RCMP’s Challenge taking up the Lyme Sucks Challenge – see who they challenge
Lyme Sucks Challenge 2015 PENSAR is proud to respond to the Penticton RCMP’s Lyme Sucks Challenge and we’ve gone…
Watch excellent video on the life and feeding cycle of ticks
This video is full of good information on how ticks successfully infect people and other animals with diseases. Although…