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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
Toronto Star: Canada’s National Ballet second soloist returns as Romeo after battle with Lyme Disease
A leap in the right direction March 16th, 2016 Toronto Star, Michael Crabb Special To The Star Brendon Saye,…
Lyme Myocarditis Presenting as Chest Pain in an Adolescent Girl.
Pediatr Emerg Care 2016(Mar); Fishe JN, Marchese RF , Callahan JM From the *Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric…
Blumenthal, Lyme disease advocacy giant, salutes researcher
By Greenwich Post on March 2, 2016 Thousands in the Lyme disease community hail U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)…
Evidence of in vivo existence of Borrelia biofilm in borrelial lymphocytomas
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1556/1886.2015.00049 Abstract Lyme borreliosis, caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, has grown into a major public…
Okanagan Valley, BC, Canada: Ticks in area woods already – near Kelowna
[Canlyme Note: Where there is one tick that you see, there may be more that you miss. Be aggressive in…
Eradication of Biofilm-Like Microcolony Structures of Borrelia burgdorferi by Daunomycin and Daptomycin but not Mitomycin C in Combination with Doxycycline and Cefuroxime
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00062 10…
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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Ontario Medical Review journal letter to editor, “Understanding Lyme Disease”
…”Much of the contention and controversy with regard to Lyme disease centres on the Infectious Disease of America clinical…
Bayer Leads Unique Effort to Support Global Public Health by Fighting Vector-Borne Diseases
Release date- 09012014 – Leverkusen, – Nearly half of the world’s population is infected with at least one type…
Cervical cancer breakthrough as scientists discover a test that heats the blood could diagnose the disease [and other diseases like Lyme Disease]
By EMMA INNES PUBLISHED: 22:44 GMT, 8 January 2014 …”The experimental technology has already been used to identify lung, skin, ovarian,…
Spate Of Fatal Lyme Cases Surprises Health Officials
By WILLIAM WEIR, bweir [at] courant [dot] com The Hartford Courant 10:06 p.m. EST, December 31, 2013 A series of…
Tiny tick causes big problems
By Daryl Vandenberg | September 12, 2013 | Smiling is something most of us take for granted, but for Shayna Jenny Van Dyke,…
On the Curious Motions of Syphilis and Lyme Disease Bacteria
By Jennifer Frazer | December 28, 2013 The bacteria that cause syphilis and Lyme Disease have something extraordinary in common: they manage to propel themselves through…
Crucial Player For Lyme Disease Transmission Identified
December 20th, 2013 Public Library of Science Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, hitchhikes in ticks for…
United States: Delegate Ramadan Announces $250,000 in Budget for Lyme Testing at George Mason University
~Governor McDonnell included this budget item based on Delegate Ramadan’s request ~ Dulles, VA | December 18, 2013 – Delegate…
York Region, Ontario: Vet urges caution following tick discovery
By Amanda Persico Dec. 16th, 2013 While tick season is usually in spring and fall, when temperatures are above 4C…