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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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Recognizing symptoms and learning how to talk to your doctor are the first steps towards treatment.
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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
CTV News Toronto, Canada: Within four years 80% of population will be living with Lyme disease carrying ticks
April 22, 2016 CTV reporter Pauline Chan warns the public to beware as tick season is upon us. She…
Hamilton-Wentworth area of Ontario found to have 41% of blacklegged ticks infected with Lyme disease causing bacteria
Prevalence of the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, in Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis at Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario John D. Scott,…
New Lyme Disease Study Reveals Strong Reporting Bias
David Michael Conner Huffington Post On March 31, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study that concludes, “In…
Physicians and patients weigh in on latest poorly designed study that raises the question, “Why?”, and, “Who is driving this spin?”
Randomized Trial of Longer-Term Therapy for Symptoms Attributed to Lyme Disease Comment “Persister research needs to account for morphological…
Chronic Lyme European PLEASE Trial–You know it’s spin when treatment “success” is called “failure”?
March 30th, 2016 Today a widely anticipated clinical trial on chronic Lyme disease from Europe called PLEASE was published…
Boston, Massachusetts: Response to Boston Globe editorial against the Lyme bill
March 29th, 2016 The Massachusetts Lyme Legislative Task Force responds to a recent editorial from the Boston Globe, which opposed legislation to require…
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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Canadian Medical Association endorses Elizabeth May’s Bill C-442, for a National Lyme Disease Strategy
On Thursday, February 27th, 2014 Elizabeth May’s office received a letter from the Canadian Medical Assocation president, Louis Hugo…
Bartonella henselae and B. koehlerae DNA in Birds
Volume 20, Number 3–March 2014 Emerging Infectious Disease Bartonella henselae and B. koehlerae DNA in Birds To the…
Bill C-442 supported by College of Family Physicians of Canada.
Green leader pushes bill to deal with Lyme disease Nova Scotia, Feb 26th, 2014, New Glasgow News, Adam MacInnis…
Why We Need a National Approach to Lyme Disease
By Elizabeth May, Feb. 25th, 2014 I was saddened that HuffPost blogger Michael Kruse has misrepresented Bill C-442, my private…
CanLyme submits letter in support of private members Bill C-442, “An Act respecting a National Lyme Disease Strategy”
Summary and Opinion on Bill C-442, “An Act respecting a National Lyme Disease Strategy” Lyme disease (borreliosis) can be…
Tick-borne Pathogens in Northwestern California, USA [ B. miyamotoi is as abundant as its congener B. burgdorferi but is not tested for in humans ]
Daniel J. Salkeld , Stephanie Cinkovich, and Nathan C. Nieto To the Editor: In northwestern California, USA, the western black-legged tick, Ixodes…
Lumbosacral multiradiculopathy responsive to antibiotic therapy: description of four patients with lumbar spondylosis and a superimposed Lyme disease
Abstract Lyme disease is a diffuse zoonosis caused by spirochaetes of the Borrelia burgdorferi species complex. Neurological manifestations of the disease,…
Vancouver Island hawk is first to be found with ticks carrying Lyme bug
BY AMY SMART, TIMES COLONIST FEBRUARY 9, 2014 4:00 PM A Vancouver Island hawk is the first raptor to join…
Ontario, Canada, researcher John Scott first to find raptor birds with Lyme Disease and Lyme Disease carrying ticks.
Abstract During a pan-Canadian tick-host study, we detected the spirochetal bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, which causes Lyme disease,…