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
Global TV: Ontario resident’s struggle with Lyme disease and the medical system.
May 21st, 2017 Tick season raises Lyme disease concerns With tick season underway, a Canadian woman shares her personal…
Latest Lyme disease risk map for Nova Scotia
Lyme disease carrying species of ticks, Ixodes scapularis, have been in Nova Scotia for decades There is no part…
Watch Mount Allison University Lyme Research Network announcement partnering with the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation
May 5th, 2017 One of the pillars within the mission statement of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation is promoting…
Mount Allison University and Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation announce partnership in research.
Mount A researchers uniting expertise against Lyme disease May 5th, 2017 CumberlandNewsNow.com Fourteen researchers have come together to form…
Listen to retired rheumatologist Dr. Al Miller discuss Lyme disease as relates to ALS and other diagnoses
Lots of good information on the failings of current guidelines and testing as well as the relationship of Lyme…
Listen to AM 740 radio interview with CanLyme president Jim Wilson
Zoomer AM 740 radio interview with CanLyme president Jim Wilson May 1st, 2017 Lyme disease a serious and growing…
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
Stanford researchers unravel secrets of shape-shifting bacteria
Stanford Report, March 16, 2015 Stanford researchers unravel secrets of shape-shifting bacteria “Six decades ago, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Joshua…
CDC Says Misperceptions Keep Kids from Getting Lifesaving Treatment for Tickborne Diseases
Last Updated: Wednesday, 18 March 2015 07:04 Short-term doxycycline use does not stain kids’ teeth, CDC/IHS study finds March…
Long road leads to Lyme for Ladner woman
Elaine Crossley finally gets proper diagnosis, but the battle is far from over It seemed innocent enough. In March…
Bilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis Requiring Tracheostomy Due to Neuroborreliosis
Carlos D. Martínez-Balzano, MD; Bruce Greenberg, MD, MBA Neuroborreliosis can cause multiple cranial and peripheral neuropathies; however, involvement of…
Teenager with stroke-like symptoms had Lyme: Acute Lyme Neuroborreliosis With Transient Hemiparesis and Aphasia
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.01.011 February 25, 2015 Nervous system involvement in Lyme disease often mimics other conditions and thus represents a…
Maine looks to join growing list of states protecting doctors from their own licencing boards via legislation
BY JOE LAWLOR Press Herald Mar 2nd, 2015 A bill would prevent the state medical board from punishing a…
Borrelia miyamotoi infection in Nature and in humans
Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is a relapsing fever Borrelia group spirochete that is transmitted by the same hard-bodied (ixodid)…
UC Berkeley: Study IDs key birds that host Lyme disease bacteria in California
[ CanLyme note: Western Canadian ticks often come from migratory birds from California and other western states. Borrelia bissettii was…
Development of droplet digital PCR for the detection of Babesia microti and Babesia duncani
doi:10.1016/j.exppara.2014.12.003 Abstract Babesia spp. are obligate protozoan parasites of red blood cells. Transmission to humans occurs through bites from…