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
Selon des leaders engagés, les chercheurs, médecins et patients doivent participer davantage à la conception du cadre préliminaire de lutte contre la maladie de Lyme
[Note de CanLyme: Aucune maladie de l’histoire n’a jamais été manipulée et manipulée à huis clos comme une maladie…
Ottawa: Canadian politicians, scientists, physicians, and advocates unite in request of Minister Philpott to insist upon an ethical process
[CanLyme Note: No disease in history has ever been so massaged and manipulated behind closed doors as Lyme disease (borreliosis)…
CanLyme director Janet Sperling on 770 AM radio, Alberta
Listen to an interesting interview of Janet Sperling on CHQR news talk 770 radio Listen now
MALADIE DE LYME. Le cri d’alarme de 100 médecins : “Il y a urgence”
ils lancent l’alerte. De plus en plus souvent, ces médecins sont confrontés à des malades qui errent des…
New strain of Lyme disease on Vancouver Island
April 4th, 2017 WATCH: New strain of Lyme disease discovered on Vancouver Island and experts warn it could affect…
Yet another United States state enacts a law to protect doctors who treat Lyme disease appropriately.
Unanimous legislative approval for bill on Lyme Disease treatment March 22nd, 2017 by O. Kay Henderson The Iowa legislature…
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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Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases: global challenges in the context of a public health threat
Christian Perronne c [dot] perronne [at] rpc [dot] aphp [dot] fr Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by…
Ontario woman battling Lyme disease forced to seek treatment in U.S.
SIMCOE, Ont. — A Simcoe woman living with Lyme disease is heading to the U.S. for help. Caley Barber…
Effects of Borrelia on host immune system: Possible consequences for diagnostics – Advances in Integrative Medicine
Mualla McManus Corresponding author Ann Cincotta Abstract Borreliosis, Lyme disease, is the fastest growing tick borne infection in the…
The New Yorker: A New Front in the Lyme Wars [a very balanced well written article]
By Michael Specter On December 15th, without much ceremony or public comment, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law that…
Tick-borne pathogens and the vector potential of ticks in China
*Corresponding author: Jingze Liu jzliu21 [at] heinfo [dot] net Parasites & Vectors 2015, 8:24 doi:10.1186/s13071-014-0628-x Published: 14 January 2015 Ticks,…
TOUCHED BY LYME: CDC fires another salvo against “chronic Lyme”
[CanLyme note: There are no human tests for many of the borrelia species of bacteria that cause Lyme disease,…
Cochrane Eagle newspaper’s Lyme borreliosis articles received first place in most read articles
[CanLyme note: This is another indication that the Canadian public wants to know more about why Lyme borreliosis is not…
Lyme [borreliosis] Helps Spread Other Tick Infections
December 31, 2014 By Christopher Intagliata – Scientific American Mice infected with Lyme and the Babesia parasite are more…
Bill C-442 opens talks on Lyme disease
December 31, 2014 Belleville News By Diane Sherman Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands,…