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.
Get help for Lyme
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.
Get the facts
Get the facts on ticks and tick-borne diseases. There are many myths!
Recent dispatches
Common misdiagnoses
Lyme victims are commonly misdiagnosed with other illnesses, such as: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Colitis Crohn’s disease Early ALS Early…
Halifax: Increasing Threat of Tick-Borne Diseases, Viruses
By Lenny Rowe Halifax town officials are taking steps to raise awareness about tick-borne diseases and viruses. Halifax Health Agent…
Canadian’s: Take Control of the Lyme Research Agenda – join webcast October 12th
posted October 2nd, 2016 From Mount Allison University, Take control of the Lyme research agenda Mount Allison University, with…
YOU CAN’T COUNT ON TESTING OF ENGORGED TICKS
A recent study published in the Journal of Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases examined the prevalence of ticks in the…
Hide and Seek: How Lyme Disease Spirochetes Overcome Complement Attack
Peter Kraiczy* Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Overcoming the…
Timmins, Ontario: Tick taken from local resident linked to Lyme disease
[CanLyme Note: Continuing to inform the public as to whether they are in a low risk or high risk area…
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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Canadian Living – What you need to know about Lyme Disease
What are the common Lyme disease symptoms? How do you get it? We answer all of your questions about…
Gripping speech by husband of Lyme Disease victim – strong condemnation of Canadian health care
In June 2014 A Lyme Disease awareness presentation was offered to the public in scenic Sechelt, BC Listen now.…
Orillia OPP detective remains baffled by her disease
By Sara Carson, Orillia Packet & Times Thursday, July 3, 2014 8:56:46 EDT PM Kathleen Menard is a detective at…
Beating Lyme Disease
By Pamela Weintraub July/August 2014 Katina Makris was living her dream when life derailed. A natural-medicine practitioner with a…
Identification of novel activity against Borrelia burgdorferi persisters using an FDA approved drug library
Jie Feng1, Ting Wang1, Wanliang Shi1, Shuo Zhang1, David Sullivan1, Paul G Auwaerter2 and Ying Zhang1 1Department of Molecular…
Edmonton, Canada : Ticks crawl north, bringing threat of Lyme Disease
What you need to know to protect yourself BY FIONA BUCHANAN, EDMONTON JOURNAL JUNE 17, 2014 EDMONTON – They…
Lyme Disease -Induced Polyradiculopathy Mimicking Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
2014 Abstract Abstract Importance: To describe a case of predominantly motor polyradiculopathy secondary to Lyme disease that can mimic motor neuron diseaseand…
Lambton Public Health finds 18 blacklegged ticks during tick drag
June 21st, 2014 Be on the lookout for ticks when at the Pinery this summer. Lambton Public Health found…
Characteristics of seroconversion and implications for diagnosis of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome: acute and convalescent serology among a prospective cohort of early Lyme disease patients
[CanLyme note: Here is a quote from the Lyme Disease Research Foundation at John Hopkins University that furthers our…