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

A Drug Combination Screen Identifies Drugs Active against Amoxicillin-Induced Round Bodies of In Vitro Borrelia burgdorferi Persisters from an FDA Drug Library

ByCanLyme TeamMay 25, 20162 min read

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

ByCanLyme TeamMay 25, 20163 min read

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

ByCanLyme TeamMay 25, 20161 min read

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

ByCanLyme TeamMay 25, 20161 min read

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.

ByCanLyme TeamMay 24, 20165 min read

[Lyme disease is actually Lyme borreliosis. an infection caused by many different strains/genotypes of Borrelia bacteria] How can one…

USA CDC won’t do ‘on-camera interview’ on Lyme: It is ‪Lyme Disease Awareness Month after all

ByCanLyme TeamMay 24, 20161 min read

May 23, 2016, Outbreak News Today [More government arrogance using their tax payer funded salaries to ignore tax payers.]…

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

National Post : Child arthritis cases spike as Lyme disease pushes further into Canada

ByCanLyme TeamApr 4, 20142 min read

[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

ByCanLyme TeamApr 2, 20141 min read

 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

ByCanLyme TeamApr 2, 20141 min read

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

ByCanLyme TeamApr 2, 20141 min read

[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

ByCanLyme TeamApr 2, 20142 min read

Lyme Arthritis: an Emerging Clinical Problem in Nova Scotia, Canada Pier D. Glaude1, Adam M. Huber1, Timothy Mailman2, Suzanne…

La maladie de Lyme en progression au Québec

ByCanLymeMar 28, 20142 min read

SHERBROOKE – Premières victimes de la maladie de Lyme au Québec, les producteurs agricoles et forestiers ont la désagréable…

MacLean’s magazine – The truth about Lyme disease

ByCanLyme TeamMar 24, 20141 min read

 Lyme disease can masquerade as MS, ALS, even dementia and its numbers are growing tenfold. So why is Canada…

Radio de la SRC, maladie de lyme – L’AUDIO FIL DU JEUDI 20 MARS 2014

ByCanLymeMar 23, 20141 min read

 L’AUDIO FIL DU JEUDI 20 MARS 2014 Écoute de la radio  

La maladie de Lyme touche l’Estrie

ByCanLymeMar 23, 20141 min read

Des producteurs agricoles de la région touchés par la maladie de Lyme lancent un cri du coeur à la…