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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
Toronto Public Health testing ticks for Lyme Disease
Wed, May 20: City of Toronto Public Health is testing ticks found in two city parks for Lyme Disease.…
Canadian Lyme disease scientists start petition for more transparency and involvement on all aspects of Lyme policy development
The Canadian Lyme Science Alliance (CLSA) is a fledgling organization dedicated to enhancing our understanding of Lyme disease, and…
Ticks found on Toronto Islands being tested for Lyme disease
By: Jackie Hong Staff Reporter, Published on Tue May 19 2015 Some sure signs that summer is coming in…
Thunder Bay, Ontario: CBC- Victoria Day 2015: The unofficial start to tick season
The long holiday weekend marks the beginning of camping season across Ontario. But it also signals the start of…
Watch video of speeches of politicians and Canada’s Ride For Lyme cyclists at the Ride For Lyme kick-off event
Listen to British Columbia provincial MLA Lana Popham, City Council member Chris Coleman, and cyclists Daniel Corso and Tanner…
Toronto Sun: Suffering from the anguish of chronic Lyme disease [Stop denying, We are dying]
BY SUE-ANN LEVY, TORONTO SUN SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2015 09:00 PM EDT TORONTO – Paige Spencer can’t remember a day in the…
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
The Public Health Laboratory of Quebec reports new cases of Lyme disease and bartonella
New cases of Lyme disease and bartonella have been reported for the 17 month period July, 2011, to November, 2012.…
Nombre de cas de certains agents infectieux identifiés a au Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec
Nombre de cas de certains agents infectieux identifiés a au Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec (LSPQ) par mois…
Scientists find new tick-borne disease [Borrelia miyamotoi]
N Engl J Med 2013; 368:291-293January 17, 2013DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1215469 To the Editor: Borrelia miyamotoi, a spirochete that is genetically…
Government agency is delaying report on [Lyme] disease, treatments
Sturbridge activist seeks release of Lyme disease report STURBRIDGE [Massachusetts] – A Lyme disease activist and sufferer claims two…
Guidelines: Guides to Profit? [Money talks]
By John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/Medpage Today and Ellen Gabler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published: December 19, 2012 The stated…
Transovarial transmission of Borrelia spirochetes by Ixodes scapularis: A summary of the literature and recent observations.
Rollend L, Fish D, Childs JE. Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8034, USA.…
(case report) Lyme Neuroborreliosis Manifesting as an Intracranial Mass Lesion
Neurosurgery Issue: Volume 30(5), May 1992, p 769-773 Copyright: Copyright (C) by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Publication Type:…
Transovarial transmission of Borrelia spirochetes by Ixodes scapularis: A summary of the literature and recent observations.
Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2012 Dec 10. pii: S1877-959X(12)00067-2. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.06.008. [Epub ahead of print] Rollend L, Fish D,…