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.
Learn more about Lyme
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
CanLyme director responds to Canadian Medical Association Journal article
Response to Doctors Gregson and Quach Robert G. Murray, DDS, Director, CanLyme Re: “The Lyme law” Zubek, 187:520-521doi:10.1503/cmaj.115-0029 The…
Exotic ticks appear to be establishing themselves in Alaska
Alaska Dispatch News Monday, August 29th, 2016 While Alaskans have long endured dense mosquitoes and frigid air, we’ve always had…
Chasser la tique avec des draps de flanelle
[un message canlyme: La maladie de Lyme est à travers le Québec. Il est partout où les merles volent. Robins…
Chasser la tique avec des draps de flanelle
[un message canlyme: La maladie de Lyme est à travers le Québec. Il est partout où les merles volent. Robins…
Lyme Patients Challenge CDC, Reports the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 25, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — While Zika is grabbing headlines as an emerging disease, another arthropod-borne…
Black-legged ticks found at Riding Mountain National Park
[CanLyme Note: “Officials aren’t ready yet to sound the alarms”… here we are in 2016 and Health Canada still refuses…
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 cloud-compatible bioinformatics pipeline for ultrarapid pathogen identification from next-generation sequencing of clinical samples
Samia N. Naccache, Scot Federman, Narayanan Veeeraraghavan, et al Published online June 4, 2014 in advance of the print…
CTV News, Calgary, Canada: Lyme disease – the ongoing battle
Karen Owen, CTV Calgary Published Tuesday, June 3, 2014 1:39PM MDT One tiny tick can ruin a life. Lyme disease…
Listen to testimony of the Public Health Agency of Canada as they speak to the federal government of Canada’s Health Committe on Bill C-442 the National Lyme Disease Strategy Act
This is a private member’s Bill put before parliament that looks like it will pass into law as a…
CHCH TV Hamilton, Canada – Protecting your pet from Lyme Disease
June 2nd, 2014 CHCH TV Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Protecting your pet from Lyme disease is often not discussed enough.…
Novel tick-borne phlebovirus identified during outbreak investigation in Tasmania
Emerg Infect Dis. 2014;20:1040-1043 June 2, 2014 An investigation of a disease outbreak among shy albatrosses in Tasmania led…
Listen to testimony of Elizabeth May, MP, Jim Wilson, CanLyme, and Nicole Bottles, patient as they speak to the federal government of Canada’s Health Committe on Bill C-442 the National Lyme Disease Strategy Act
This is a private member’s Bill put before parliament that looks like it will pass into law as a…
CBC TV : Power and Politics, Battling Lyme Disease
Lyme disease victim Nicole Bottles shares her story of abuse from within the Canadian medical system in her struggles…
Lyme disease rates in Quebec’s Montérégie spike
If left untreated, tick-borne disease can cause neurological problems, cardiac arrest, chronic fatigue Posted: May 31, 2014 11:37 AM…
Lyme Disease Older Than Human Race, Says Study
According to new research, Lyme disease could be older than the human race. The news was recently announced by…