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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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Schizophrenia Differential Diagnoses
Diagnostic Considerations – Other psychiatric illnesses – Anatomic lesions – Metabolic illnesses – Endocrine disordersInfectious illnesses – Miscellaneous disorders…
Undiagnosed Lyme disease in adults with schizophrenia.
Published online Aug. 6th, 2015 ABSTRACT Lyme disease (LD) is the world’s leading tick borne infection caused by the…
Entomological Society of America Issues Statement on Tick-borne Diseases
[CanLyme note: CanLyme has no evidence to support the insinuation of the Entomological Society of America in the last sentence…
Fox News: Richard Gere Among Celebrities Who Have Battled Lyme Disease
[CanLyme note: They forgot Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates, and others including professional golfers and baseball players.] Lyme…
Persister Development by B. burgdorferi Populations In Vitro
[CanLyme note: The researchers acknowledge in their paper that their findings are limited to doxycycline, alone, at their prescribed dosages.…
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,…
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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Huffington Post: The Global Search for Education: Canada – Ticks
Lyme borreliosis, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Bartonella, tularemia, and more recently, Borrelia miyamotoi (a distant relative…
Global TV News – Ticks carrying Lyme on the rise
Fri, Jul 26: Black-legged ticks are crawling into parts of Ontario. Marianne Dimain reports Watch Global News story
Worker links motor neuron disease to work-related Lyme disease – awarded compensation
https://www.riskandinsurance.com/story.jsp?storyId=533354603 In New York, a worker bears the burden of presenting competent medical evidence establishing a causal relationship between…
Black-legged ticks linked to encephalitis in New York state
IMAGE:This image shows tick surveying with a drag cloth. Click here for more information. Researchers urge citizens and…
Pathogenic analysis of Borrelia garinii strain SZ isolated from northeastern China
BACKGROUND: Various genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) have been identified from patients and animals worldwide. Genospecies-related dissemination…
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…