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
Unravelling the mystery of Lyme disease: Why Canada needs to do more
Rian Michelsen is a rising star. Fifteen years ago, he was the toddler who burst out from behind the…
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato-infected Ixodes ricinus collected from vegetation near the Arctic Circle
July 2015 Abstract This is the first study to determine the density of questing Ixodes ricinus in northern Norway.…
Lyme disease may cause psychiatric problems
July 24th, 2015 Daniel Calder St. Petersburg Mental Health Examiner Perhaps the most devastating symptoms produced by Lyme disease infection occur…
Biofilm formation by Borrelia sensu lato
Arun Timmaraju, Priyanka A.S. Theophilus, Kunthavai Balasubramanian, Shafiq Shakih, David F. Leucke, and Eva Sapi FEMS Microbiology Letters, online…
Intestinal Pseudoobstruction Caused by Chronic Lyme Neuroborreliosis. A Case Report
July 25, 2015 By David F Schefte and Tyge Nordentoft Abstract Chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction is often classified as idiopathic.…
Doctors concerned, cases of Lyme disease increase in Ontario
Daksha Rangan The Weather Network Saturday, July 25, 2015, 3:28 PM – Eastern Ontario has seen a surge in…
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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More news
CanLyme president, Jim Wilson speaks to Canada AM, CTV’s national news show, about Lyme disease.
Patients have to go to United States just to get a proper diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. Too…
Dynamics of connective-tissue localization during chronic Borrelia burgdorferi infection
Laboratory Investigation , (24 June 2013) | doi :10.1038/labinvest.2013.81 Denise M Imai, Sunlian Feng, Emir Hodzic and Stephen W…
Winery owner building research centre for Lyme Disease
ByJoanna Frketich The founder of an Ontario winery with area connections is working to create a research facility for…
Glut of deer ticks raises fear of Lyme disease
Thunder Bay health unit changes priority to collect deer ticks CBC News Posted: Jul 2, 2013 1:17 PM ET An…
Lyme disease victim sends open youtube video-letter to Canadian Parliamentarians
David Leggett tells his story and pleads with the Canadian government to step up to the plate, support Bill…
Lyme disease isn’t just Borrelia burgdorferi and Lone Star ticks do transmit Lyme disease study proves.
UNF Researchers Make Big Discovery About Lyme Disease [CanLyme note: Lone star ticks will make their way into Canada…
Canadians trapped in Lyme disease limbo
Two Hamilton-area women are among the growing number of Canadians with Lyme disease paying tens of thousands of dollars…
Silver ‘boost to antibiotic success’
Adding silver to antibiotics makes them 10 to 1,000 times more effective at fighting infections, research suggests. Silver has…
First positive tick on a human for Lyme disease in Windsor-Essex area
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is warning the public after the first tick collected from a human this year…