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.
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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
Researchers study ticks in Ottawa where residential zones border woodland areas
32% of the adult and nymph ticks tested positive for Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
Bartonella DNA more common in patients with psychosis
Research also identifies limitations with antibody testing.
Another young woman dies in the midst of ongoing confusion around Lyme disease
We need to do better.
Finding Resilience: A Teen’s Journey Through Lyme Disease
The writing in this book is captivating, moving back and forth between Rachel’s perspective and what Dorothy recalled about…
Summer camp leaders, outdoor educators, teachers, and parents
Help keep kids safe in the outdoors by learning about ticks and 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.
Learn to protect yourself
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A short history of CanLyme, by Jim Wilson
Panelist Jim Wilson is the Past President and Founder of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation.
Justin Wood speaks to his complicated diagnosis and treatment path
Justin has a Lyme story that led him to take action and start his company, Geneticks.
CanLyme funding overview of high quality Canadian research projects
Dr. Sarah Keating, Anatomic Pathologist, CanLyme Board Member.
Grappling with the status quo, and making change
We are really looking for a fundamental change and the fundamental change has to be backed up by science.
Highlights from Q&A Panel discussion of The Quiet Epidemic global impact campaign
Thank you so much for your support of our recent two-part educational and fundraising event ~ The Quiet Epidemic.…
Q&A panel FAQ summary – The Quiet Epidemic
The Quiet Epidemic and panel information. I’ve heard of using ant spray with permethrin to keep ticks off socks…
Female ticks (Ixodes scapularis) infected with Borrelia burgdorferi have increased overwintering survival, with implications for tick population growth
Abstract The tick, Ixodes scapularis, vectors pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Over the last few…
Complete Remission in Paralytic Late Tick-Borne Neurological Disease Comprising Mixed Involvement of Borrelia, Babesia, Anaplasma, and Bartonella: Use of Long-Term Treatments with Antibiotics and Antiparasitics in a Series of 10 Cases
Abstract This study aimed to demonstrate that severe neurological motor deficits in the context of late tick-borne disease with…
Primary Detection of the Establishment of Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis, in British Columbia, Canada
Abstract Ticks transport and transmit microbial pathogens that inflict malevolent diseases on domestic and wildlife animals, and humans. We…