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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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Recent dispatches
Draft of report to parliament regarding Bill 442 now online and open to public input.
February 7th, 2017 As per the requirements of Bill 442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Health…
A technology backed by Bill Gates may revolutionize diagnostics for Lyme disease
Diana Pryor, CNBC news associate February 7th, 2017 While the medical and health community is putting a spotlight on…
Canadian tax payer funded Lyme research not good value for dollar
In December of 2016 a Canadian article was published in PLOS ONE proporting itself as a good systematic review about…
Flunk the Lyme test? Just wait and get sicker
January, 2017, Huffington Post Sin Lee, a pathologist and scientist, believes the deck is stacked in the quest to…
MicroRNA and mRNA Transcriptome Profiling in Primary Human Astrocytes Infected with Borrelia burgdorferi.
Abstract Lyme disease is caused by infection with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), which is transmitted to humans…
First report of a blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say (Acari: Ixodidae), parasitizing a raptor in Canada
Systematic & Applied Acarology 22(2): 208–216 (2017) https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.22.2.5 Abstract We document the first report of a blacklegged tick, Ixodes…
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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A phylogenomic and molecular marker based proposal for the division of the genus Borrelia into two genera: the emended genus Borrelia containing only the members of the relapsing fever Borrelia, and the genus Borreliella gen. nov. containing the members of the Lyme disease Borrelia (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex).
[CanLyme note: What patients are suffering from is a borreliosis. They do not care if science has found a way…
Please take the Lyme Sucks challenge!!
The Lyme Sucks Challenge: 1. Cut a lime in half (share it with a friend, or your favorite…
Relapsing Fever Group Borrelia in Southern California Rodents
[CanLyme note: Lyme disease is a borreliosis, caused by many strains/species of Borrelia. Relapsing fever is simply strain related…
Global TV, Toronto: The move to ‘active surveillance’ to fight Lyme disease
Near Kingston, ON- For the first time Kingston, Frontenac and Lennon & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health Region is taking matters…
Scientific American: Tick-Borne Diseases on the Rise, Thanks to Global Warming
Lyme disease is bad enough. But it’s just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases ticks…
Scientific American: Lyme Disease Surges North
One of the clearest signs of health risks in a warming world has emerged in one of the world’s…
Health Canada’s new Lyme disease plan: You act, we’ll watch
Canada is under pressure to show leadership as Lyme spreads, but its ‘action plan’ shows it’s out of touch…
Canada’s Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease passes 2nd reading in the senate.
Second Reading–Debate Adjourned Hon. Janis G. Johnson moved second reading of Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework…
Richard Gunderman, MD – How to Discourage a Doctor
Not accustomed to visiting hospital executive suites, I took my seat in the waiting room somewhat warily. Seated across…