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
Doctors Who Treat Chronic and Rare Illnesses: Quacks or Heroes?
March 1, 2017 David Michael Conner The Huffington Post “Many readers of my writing know that I have spent…
Triathlete Kirsten Sweetland, sidelined by health, calls it a career
Cleve Dheensaw, Times Colonist, March 2nd Triathlete Kirsten Sweetland of Victoria, a former teen prodigy who overcame career-threatening injuries…
New Lyme disease petition urges action plan rewrite
Richmond Hill Liberal – Kim Zarzour, March 1st, 2017 A new petition asking the Canadian government for a better…
New York Times: More Than 80 Percent of Patient Groups Accept Drug Industry Funds, Study Shows
[CanLyme Note: We have been approached by various pharma industry to work with them but we have steadfastly refused in…
VOCAL – Voices Of Canadians Against Lyme – Teens, Listen to a song created to bring attention to the dire situation of Lyme in Canada
LISTEN TO SONG BELOW: Children in Canada are suffering from Chronic Lyme Disease, please help them out and sign…
Identification of Novel Zoonotic Activity of Bartonella spp
Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Mar;22(3):457-62. doi: 10.3201/eid2203.150269 Abstract Certain Bartonella species are known to cause afebrile bacteremia in humans…
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
British Columbia, Canada: Tick borne disease was misdiagnosed for two decades
Julie Bertrand / Oceanside Star November 13, 2014 12:00 AM Qualicum Beach resident Sue Aldous discovered she had Lyme…
The Borrelia hermsii factor H binding protein FhbA is not required for infectivity in mice or for resistance to human complement in vitro.
[CanLyme note: Currently, testing and symptomotology knowledge are not nearly accurate enough to distinguish between a human B. hermsii infection and…
The Mayday Project Responds to Dr. Paul Auwaerter’s Defense of IDSA Guidelines for Lyme Disease
Friday, November 07, 2014 “My office uncovered undisclosed financial interests held by several of the most powerful IDSA panelists.…
Professor of Microbiology: Lyme is most misunderstood [maligned] disease since AIDS [and far more prevalent]
Holly Ahern 12:08 a.m. EST November 9, 2014 With the possible exception of HIV/AIDS, no infectious disease in recent…
Bartonella henselae Infections In An Owner and Two Papillon Dogs Exposed to Tropical Rat Mites (Ornithonyssus bacoti).
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2014 Oct;14(10):703-9. doi: 10.1089/vbz.2013.1492. Abstract After raccoons were trapped and removed from under a house…
A possible alternative to antibiotics
[Canlyme note: Although Borrelia are not known to secrete toxins, this type of research may be beneficial for chemical constituents…
Case of tick paralysis found on Sunshine Coast
Hikers attempt to save snowshoe hare with engorged ticks Christine Wood/Glacier Media / Squamish Chief [newspaper] November 5, 2014 01:49…
Lyme Misdiagnosis Can Divert Patients From Correct Treatment
[CanLyme Note: We agree totally that a thorough diagnostic work-up should preclude any diagnosis. Not everything is Lyme borreliosis. What…
New test shows promise in identifying new drugs to treat Lyme disease
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed a test they say will allow them…