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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
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…
France: Chronic Lyme is real and treat with long term antibiotics.
Inside Europe: Lyme disease on the rise in France Lyme disease, which you get when bitten by an infected…
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
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…
Shaw TV’s ‘Go Okanagan’ looks at Lyme Disease, and patients stories as they prepare for the Lyme Sucks Challenge
Lyme disease is becoming more and more prevalent throughout Canada, North America and around the globe. It can be…
Health officials ramp up tick monitoring for Powassan Virus
CityNews reporter Andrea Piunno with what health officials are doing to protect you and what you should watch out…
Global TV: Penticton firefighters take bite out of Lyme disease
PENTICTON – The Lyme Sucks Challenge #lymesuckschallenge may be the next social media craze, at least that’s what Penticton…
IDSA mantra, ‘There is no such thing as chronic Lyme’, linked to most Lyme injuries and deaths: Mayday Project
April 16th, 2015 [IDSA= Infectious Disease Society of America] “Cutler says most injuries and deaths due to Lyme disease…