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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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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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Recent dispatches
Bill to combat Lyme disease heads to Pres. Obama for signature
December 7th, 2016 WASHINGTON (NEWS10) – The U.S. Senate passed legislation to combat Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. The…
Ceftriaxone Pulse Dosing Fails to Eradicate Biofilm-Like Microcolony B. burgdorferi Persisters Which Are Sterilized by Daptomycin/ Doxycycline/Cefuroxime without Pulse Dosing
Published Nov 2016 Abstract Although the majority of Lyme disease patients can be cured, at least 10–20% of…
Australia: A Senate inquiry has recommended urgent government funding for research into tick-borne disease in Australia.
Nov. 30th, 2016 Inquiry calls for Lyme funding, research A Senate committee has recommended the federal government urgently…
BC Centre for Disease Control warns about ticks infected with Lyme-related bacteria
Nov 7th, 2016 Vancouver – A warning from the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) suggests three ticks collected…
‘Jedi’s’ run for Lyme disease was surprisingly a lesson of love
Nov. 13th, 2016, By Catherine Thompson, Waterloo Region Record WATERLOO – His grandkids call him Jedi. As in the…
Johns Hopkins receives $10M to expand research into Lyme disease cause, treatments
Grants from Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation support existing research on post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, new therapies, vulnerable populations…
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 seroepidemiologic study of human infections with spotted fever group rickettsiae in North Carolina
Meagan F. Vaughn et al, September 2014, doi:10.1128/JCM.01733-14 ABSTRACT Increasing entomologic and epidemiologic evidence suggests that spotted fever group…
Remarkable diversity of tick or mammalian-associated Borreliae in the metropolitan San Francisco Bay Area, California
Natalia Fedorova, Joyce E. Kleinjan, David James, Lucia T. Hui, Hans Peeters, Robert S. Lane Abstract The diversity of…
Lyme disease patient handed hefty FOI bill
Vancouver, BC, Canada / (CKNW AM) AM980 Shane Woodford September 08, 2014 08:24 pm A woman suffering from…
United States: Lyme Victory as Bill passes US House of Representatives
[CanLyme note: Congratulations to to the US House of Representatives for passing this important legislation. Years of hard work…
Crowdfunding meets goal to procure Lyme disease program files
MARK HUME VANCOUVER – The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Sep. 09 2014, 8:00 AM EDT Saying she was frustrated because patients…
Crowdsourcing used to fund Lyme disease FOI request
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN, VANCOUVER SUN SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 In tickety-tock time Monday morning, a Lyme disease advocate was successful in…
Taylor George went 13 years before being diagnosed with Lyme
By April Hudson, Spruce Grove Examiner/Stony Plain Reporter Friday, September 5, 2014 2:31:03 MDT PM Fibromyalgia. Chronic fatigue. Osteoporosis. Myo…
First detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato DNA in king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus halli).
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, Available online 20 August 2014. Abstract The hard tick Ixodes uriae parasitises a wide range of…
Lyme disease in Alberta
Original Air Date: Friday, July 11, 2014 We’re hearing the story of one Alberta woman’s life-changing battle against Lyme disease…