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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
Identification of Additional Anti-Persister Activity against Borrelia burgdorferi from an FDA Drug Library
Sept, 2015 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205,…
United States : Lyme Disease Association Offers Lyme Conference Scholarships for Medical Students
WALL, N.J., Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The Lyme Disease Association, Inc. (LDA) announces availability of scholarships for its annual…
Canada: President’s Newsbrief – Ontario College of Family Physicians
[CanLyme Note: CanLyme is pleased to see the Ontario of College of Family Physicians is raising awareness about Lyme…
United Kingdom: Phil Wilson MP: Spreading the word about Lyme [now a pandemic globally]
Tuesday – 15 September 2015 AS an MP, I am continuously learning. Every week constituents come to me with…
Consumer Reports: Tick danger in autumn (also effective and safe tick repellents)
Sept 13th, 2015 CONSUMER REPORTS – You may think your risk of getting Lyme disease ends when the weather…
Ontario Lyme Alliance responds to article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that missed the mark.
Re: Lyme disease: How reliable are serologic results? see also https://canlyme.com/?p=7245 Debra L. Fraleigh, Co-founder Ontario Lyme Alliance A thorough…
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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ILADS 15th Annual Lyme Disease Conference – North America
Lyme and Tick Borne Disease Conference Objective To provide physicians and other medical practitioners with insight into recent…
Think You’re Allergic to Penicillin? You Might Think Again
Jeffrey Kopman Published: Sep 10, 2013, 11:46 AM EDT weather.com A late-summer hike results in tired legs, a sweaty…
Lyme disease controversies over diagnosis, treatment at Canada’s first complex, chronic disease program clinic
By Pamela Fayerman Dr. Lucy Kinninmonth has been to about 20 different medical specialists in the past year, all…
In Vivo Expression Technology Identifies a Novel Virulence Factor
Authors: Ellis TC, Jain S, Linowski AK, Rike K, Bestor A, Rosa PA, Halpern M, Kurhanewicz S, Jewett MW…
The immune system cannot generate immunological memory during infection with the Lyme disease agent B. burgdorferi
R.A. Elsner, S.W. Barthold, N. Baumgarth Graduate Group in Microbiology and the Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA,…
The Global Search for Education: France – Ticks …. Huffington Post
Author, C.M. Rubin: Lyme (Borreliosis), Anaplasmosis /Ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Bartonella, Tularemia, and more recently, Borrelia miyamotoi…
Unique strains of Anaplasma phagocytophilum segregate among diverse questing and non-questing Ixodes tick species in the western United States
Abstract The emerging tick-borne pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum infects humans, domestic animals, and wildlife throughout the Holarctic. In the western…
Listen to Dr. Bonnie Henry, regarding the BC Clinic, completely ignore the vast patient group who do respond to longer term antibiotics
Listen to the many wobble words and phrases used by Dr. Bonnie Henry to discount the dramatic benefit to…
Patient only gets his life back after longer term antibiotic intervention, and another begins the treatment – watch their stories
‘You don’t have Lyme’, or, ‘those rogue doctors are going to harm you with those horrible antibiotics’, these are…