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
Globe and Mail: How ticks became a major public health issue
[CanLyme Note: The tell-tale “bull’s eye” rash seldom occurs. Of those 17 children in Nova Scotia with confirmed Lyme Disease,…
Diagnosing Lyme Neuroborreliosis in Horses is Difficult
By Courtesy University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Aug 5, 2015 Most horses in the Mid-Atlantic region show…
Lyme disease: Knowledge and practices of family practitioners in southern Quebec
[CanLyme note: We invite your review of the below article (free PDF of study can be accessed in the…
Chatelaine Magazine: Lyme disease is on the rise – should you be worried?
July 29th, 2015 More than 600 cases of Lyme disease were reported in Canada in 2013 – a number…
USA CDC : Vaccines for Lyme Disease – Past, Present, and Future
[CanLyme note: The argument to market a vaccine anytime soon is weak. Until many eyes have had a chance…
VIDEO – CBC Friends raise money to help treat woman with Lyme disease
Friends of Carolyn MacIntyre, a Perth-area woman with Lyme disease, are raising money to pay for her ongoing care…
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.
Learn to protect yourself
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More news
Canadian lawyer Paul Haefling speaks on Lyme disease
Testing in Canada is not good, the government of Ontario is well aware of that fact yet they imposed…
New Insights Into How Antibiotics Damage Human Cells Suggest Novel Strategies for Making Long-Term Antibiotic Use Safer
July 3, 2013 – A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University…
Heart stopping tick – case report
Authors: Karmacharya P, Aryal MR Location: Department of Medicine, Reading Health System, West Reading, PA 19611, United States. Citation: …
Researchers strive for vaccine against tick-borne diseases
[CanLyme note: notice that most USA National Institute of Health funding only goes to find a way of monetizing…
Australia: Federal Government sets up Committee to Investigate Lyme disease
[CanLyme note: the oldest tactic used in Lyme disease misinformation proliferation is; from country to country each of the country’s medical “leadership” state…
Lyme Disease Think Tank, British Columbia’s Women’s Hospital Complex Chronic Disease Program, Vancouver, BC Canada
On April 13th, 2013, a one day Think Tank was held for the medical professionals at the BC Women’s…
Exclusive: Encephalitis virus found in local ticks
First there was Lyme disease. Then came two malaria-like infectious diseases, babesiosis and anaplasmosis. Now a new study indicates…
CNN : Why you should be afraid of Lyme disease
Editor’s note: Pamela Weintraub is the author of “Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic” (St. Martin’s Press), winner of…
Environmentalist gets results through persistent pursuit of documents
VANCOUVER – The Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Jul. 07 2013, 10:00 PM EDT As a child, Gwen Barlee…