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.
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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
Lyme disease risk rising in Ontario as ticks spread farther in province
[CanLyme Note: Ticks are not only spreading aross southern Ontario, they are spreading in all regions of the province. If…
Ontario Lyme Researcher John Scott Receives Governor General Award
Scott was chosen to receive a Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers in recognition of 27 years of research and advocacy…
Lyme Medical & Educational Symposium – Toronto
Lyme Out Loud Kids Canada is organizing a one day symposium on April 21st, 2017 at St. Paul’s Anglican…
Lyme disease and pregnancy – US Center for Disease Control
Tell your physician (because they are told this cannot happen)… Lyme disease can be passed through the placenta to…
Swedish MD suspended over Lyme disease care; patients bereft
[CanLyme Note: Canada has suspended almost 100% of doctors who diagnose and treat Lyme disease based appropriately by all…
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…
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.
Learn to protect yourself
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No concern about why the patient is sick, just that it is not allowed to be Lyme disease
[CanLyme note: “Another month went by and a call was received from the ID specialist in Calgary. We were…
Bill C-442 is carried as is in Senate. Hear testimony in Canada’s Senate Committee on Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease, as Bill moves forward.
Bill C-442 is carried in the Senate (signed into law with Royal assent Dec. 16th, 2014): Listen to testimony…
New Study Provides Hope for Chronic Lyme Disease Sufferers
December 1, 2014 Patients with Lyme disease know that their symptoms and the effects of the disease can be…
Listen to Brenda Sterling-Goodwin as she discusses Lyme in Nova Scotia, Canada
All of Nova Scotia is endemic for Lyme disease says Brenda Sterling-Goodwin Brenda Sterling-Goodwin joins us to discuss ticks…
Hamilton scientist who discovered cause of Lyme disease dies
November 19, 2014 10:00 pm HAMILTON – To the world, Willy Burgdorfer will always be remembered as the scientist who…
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…