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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
Ticks are killed in clothes dryer in only 5 minutes new research suggests
Braintree HS graduate continues groundbreaking ticks research By Robert Aicardi baicardi [at] wickedlocal [dot] com Posted Aug. 31,…
Disease Risk & Landscape Attributes of Tick-Borne Borrelia Pathogens in the San Francisco Bay Area, California
Published: August 19, 2015 – DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134812 Abstract Habitat heterogeneity influences pathogen ecology by affecting vector abundance and the…
Nature.com : Scientists have no shortage of ideas about how to stop tick-borne illnesses. What is holding them back?
Aug. 25th, 2015 Melinda Wenner Moyer The growing global battle against blood-sucking ticks On a balmy day in…
More infected ticks found in Sudbury area
By Jim Moodie, The Sudbury Star, August 26th, 2015 The city is experiencing a minor rash of Lyme-carrying ticks, any…
Return on Investment Slipping in Biomedical Research
[CanLyme note: Medical research should be of the highest standard of all research, but in many cases the opposite is…
Winnipegger traveled to New York for Lyme disease treatment
Meghan Roberts, CTV Winnipeg Published Sunday, August 23, 2015 9:23PM CST A Winnipeg man says he travelled to New…
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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Medical abuse in Manitoba – a plea for sanity in a messed up system
This is a copy of a letter I was asked by Marie Hughes to write on her behalf. It…
Lyme Disease: Spreading across Canada – The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
“It’s official. A March 2012 study confirmed that the tick that spreads lyme disease has been infiltrating Canada for…
Lyme disease more common than previously thought [10 times more cases says US CDC putting number at 300,000 cases per year!]
ATLANTA August 19, 2013 (AP) By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer Lyme disease is about 10 times more…
The immune system cannot generate immunological memory during infection with the Lyme disease agent B. burgdorfer
R.A. Elsner, S.W. Barthold, N. Baumgarth https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043466613003542 Graduate Group in Microbiology and the Center for Comparative Medicine, University of…
The Global Search for Education: In Search of Solutions – Ticks
To date in my “Ticks” series, we have learned from leading global experts that tick-borne illnesses (including Lyme disease)…
CBC News: Reports of Lyme disease triple in southern Manitoba
The number of black-legged ticks in southeastern Manitoba is on the rise, which has led to a surge in…
Still Lots of Unknowns
Much of the controversy over Lyme disease centers on the patients who experience chronic illness. When Lyme is caught…
Can Alzheimer Disease be Prevented?
Bret S. Stetka, MD Background and Biomarkers AD is an epidemic, affecting over 5 million Americans and nearly 40…
Babesia odocoilei infection in a Saskatchewan elk (Cervus elaphus canadensis) herd.
An 8-year-old female elk (Cervus elaphus canadensis) cow, presented for chronic severe weight loss and unthriftiness, was diagnosed with…