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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
Parliamentarians convene bi-partisan panel to address Lyme disease
The illness could affect 10,000 Canadians by 2020. [per year] [CanLyme suggests we are possibly there already.] PUBLISHED…
A Drug Combination Screen Identifies Drugs Active against Amoxicillin-Induced Round Bodies of In Vitro Borrelia burgdorferi Persisters from an FDA Drug Library
Frontiers in Microbiology, May 23, 2016 Although currently recommended antibiotics for Lyme disease such as doxycycline or amoxicillin cure…
CBC radio show BC Almanac interviews doctors with opposing opinions on Lyme treatment, Lyme testing
May 25th, 2016 Interesting radio show with Dr. Liz Zubek, who treats based upon the patient’s symptoms, and Dr.…
Popular on 630 CHED radio, the Ryan Jespersen show interviews CanLyme director Janet Sperling and Edmonton area support group founder Kim Spears
You can listen here at https://www.630ched.com/audio-vault/ Select May 25th, 9 am, then drag the scroll bar to 8:55 for…
Watch CTV Canada AM segment with Rossana Magnotta – aired May 25th, 2016
The rise of Lyme disease: Tiny bug causing big problems Watch here
Watch CTV news interview of Dr. Todd Hatchette. A very good example of how opinion, not science, is driving Lyme borreliosis policy in Canada… in spite of evidence presented by experts in Ottawa, May 15th to 17th, 2016.
[Lyme disease is actually Lyme borreliosis. an infection caused by many different strains/genotypes of Borrelia bacteria] How can one…
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
Nova Scotia – Houston presents bill to address Lyme Disease
Published on April 10, 2014 Today in the Legislature, Tim Houston, Progressive Conservative MLA for Pictou East, introduced a…
Healthwise magazine – Ottawa – Lyme Disease
Read the article in Healthwise magazine by clicking on link, then use the interactive reading tool by putting your…
Diversity of piroplasms detected in blood-fed and questing ticks from several states in the United States.
Shock BC, Moncayo A, Cohen S, Mitchell EA, Williamson PC, Lopez G, Garrison LE, Yabsley MJ. online before print…
Scientists discover unnamed disease carried by deer ticks
[Canlyme note : The notion or suggestion that Borrelia miyamotoi is a new disease, is at this point in time…
National Post : Child arthritis cases spike as Lyme disease pushes further into Canada
[CanLyme note: A comment that was in the print version of the National Post newspaper has been edited out of…
Lyme Disease more prevalent than BC Govt is letting on
A Kamloops couple whose daughters contracted Lyme disease says the BC Government and the medical community continue to downplay…
LymeDisease.org Publishes Largest Study of Chronic Lyme Disease Ever Conducted; Patients Suffer Poor Quality of Life and High Rates of Disability and Unemployment
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 01, 2014 Chronic Lyme disease is associated with a poorer quality of life than…
[Canadian doctors gave up on him] India : Man revived from deep coma after 2 months
[How many more just are left to die in Canada? Not a great tourism advertisement for our country and it’s…
Only 18% of Lyme Disease patients studied in Nova Scotia had a rash… not the 60-80% stated by Canadian governments, AMMI, and in Canadian medical curricula
Lyme Arthritis: an Emerging Clinical Problem in Nova Scotia, Canada Pier D. Glaude1, Adam M. Huber1, Timothy Mailman2, Suzanne…