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
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…
Comparison of bacterial 16S rRNA variable regions for microbiomesurveys of ticks
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2017.02.002 Abstract Ticks vector diverse pathogenic bacteria that are important to identify in public health and veterinary contexts.…
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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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…
Climate change brings Lyme disease to Canada
by GAIL JOHNSON on OCT 29, 2014 JIM WILSON, FOUNDER of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme) was in…
Great Britain: Woman left with paralysed face after tick bite in her own garden
Oct 31, 2014 A woman was left with a paralysed face after being bitten on the thigh by ticks.…
Australia: Pittwater Council asks residents to pull out your bag of ticks
CAYLA DENGATE, MANLY DAILY, NOVEMBER 01, 2014 12:01AM While ticks are usually best avoided, Pittwater Council is extending a request from…
Lyme Carditis Can Cause Sudden Cardiac Death
[ CanLyme note: This report underlines what patients and their concerned physicians have known for years and have tried to…