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
Global TV Edmonton: Famous singer [Kris Kristofferson] puts spotlight on Lyme disease
June 13th, 2016 Kris Kristofferson told Rolling Stone Country that doctors thought he had dementia and then he tested…
REVERSIBLE CAUSES OF DEMENTIA AND NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS
Recent high-profile cases in the news remind us of the need to consider Lyme disease as a possible cause…
Ontario, Canada: East Gwillimbury BMX rider drives through tough competition [Lyme disease]
June 10th, 2016 East Gwillimbury Express by Simon Martin … “But Dorian had to leave Canada for four months…
CBC News: Canadian Member of Parliament Karen Ludwig – More national round tables planned for Lyme disease awareness
June 10th, 2016 A national, all-party round table on Lyme disease in Ottawa recently brought to light some of…
Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and Borrelia garinii DNAs in patient with Hyperkeratosis lenticularis perstans (Flegel disease)
Katarina Schwarzova, June 3, 2016 Atlas of Science Flegel disease (Hyperkeratosis lenticularis perstans – HLP) is a rare autosomal dermatosis,…
Singer and Movie Star Kris Kristofferson… was not Alzheimer’s disease, it was Lyme Disease
Kris Kristofferson says his memory loss was due to ticks, not dementia June 9th, 2016 by Carmen Chai, Global…
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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More news
Full house at South Surrey Lyme forum – Canada
by Sarah Massah – Peace Arch News posted Apr 28, 2014 at 12:00 PM It was a full house at…
Is tick-borne germ causing scourge? Important Archive
Lyme disease might be the real culprit By: Melissa Martin, Winnipeg Free Press, from April 15th, 2010 Fact: Manitoba has…
CTV National News: Side effects of Lyme disease
CTV’s medical specialist Avis Favaro reports on the painful side effects of undiagnosed Lyme disease in Canada and the…
Globe and Mail – Lyme disease on the rise in Canada, linked to ticks
[CanLyme Note: The $300,000 noted in the article were transferred by CanLyme to the G. Magnotta Foundation for Vector-Borne…
The Purple Paper – a publication of the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Canada.
[CanLyme note: The comments below are a review by our expert science reviewers in light of some of the…
Blacklegged Tick Population by Migratory Birds in Ontario, Canada
Researchers have discovered a new Lyme disease endemic area in Frontenac County that was likely started by spring migratory…
Your donations matter
CanLyme is a registered charitable organization (#864437603RR0001). Too many Lyme disease patients had been previously diagnosed with other disorders…
Nova Scotia – Health minister willing to work towards solution
NEW WATERFORD – Nova Scotia Health minister Leo Glavine said after hearing families are being forced to leave the…
Upcoming Lyme Awareness/Support events
Ongoing meetings, Winnipeg, MB Meet every third Tuesday of month. Month of February, meeting Tuesday February 17 at 7…