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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
ICI Radio-Canada; Maladie de lyme, augmentation rapide du nombre de cas de la maladie de lyme
May 8th, 2015 CBC Radio-Canada; Maladie de lyme, augmentation rapide du nombre de cas de la maladie de lyme…
Grandpa runs for Lyme disease – for his grandson
Watch touching video of a Grandpa who started running for Lyme on January 2nd, 2015 and has logged over…
ICI Radio-Canada; Maladie de lyme, augmentation rapide du nombre de cas de la maladie de lyme
May 8th, 2015 CBC Radio-Canada; Maladie de lyme, augmentation rapide du nombre de cas de la maladie de lyme…
ICI Radio Canada – CBC TV – Maladie de lyme
Ticks on the rise, human cases on the the rise. Watch TV segment
IDSA Ignores IOM Recommendations in Lyme Disease Treatment Guidelines’ Development, According to the Lyme Disease Association & LymeDisease.org
May 6, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — It’s been forty years since Lyme disease was first recognized in the US− when…
RHOBH star Yolanda Foster uses Stem Cells to fight Lyme disease
By LAUREL BROWN FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 22:53 GMT, 7 May 2015 | UPDATED: 22:59 GMT, 7 May 2015 For…
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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Reservoir Competence of Wildlife Host Species for Babesia microti.
Hersh MH, Tibbetts M, Strauss M, Ostfeld RS, Keesing F. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 Dec; 18(12): 1951-7. Abstract Human…
Bartonella henselae endocarditis of percutaneously implanted pulmonary valve.
J Heart Valve Dis. 2011 Jan;20(1):94-7. Atamanyuk I, Raja SG, Kostolny M. Source Department of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great…
Detection and heterogeneity of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ticks by culture-dependent and culture-independent methods
Authors: Xu G, Wesker J, White C, Campbell J, Reich NG and Rich SM Citation: J. Clin. Microbiol. 2012(Nov)…
Comparison of the Babesia duncani (WA1) IgG Detection Rates among Clinical Sera Submitted to a Reference Laboratory for WA1 IgG Testing and Blood Donor Specimens from Diverse Geographic Areas of the United States
Abstract All reported cases of WA1 babesiosis have occurred in the Pacific coast region of the United States, suggesting…
Lyme disease counting is uncertain, imprecise [US CDC agrees it is underreported]
Cases soar in the Northeast; CDC admits undercounting but declines ‘epidemic’ label New York state – the veritable epicenter…
Characterization of Biofilm Formation by Borrelia burgdorferi In Vitro
Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, has long been known to be capable of forming…
Lyme disease antiscience – The Lancet
Paul Auwaerter and colleagues1 are among the handful of individuals who have controlled the Lyme disease research agenda for…
Persisting atypical and cystic forms of Borrelia burgdorferi and local inflammation in Lyme neuroborreliosis
Abstract Background The long latent stage seen in syphilis, followed by chronic central nervous system infection and inflammation, can…
Tuskegee Part 2 – Lyme disease – A far larger fraud?
The Tuskgegee experiment that started in the 1930’s ruined over 600 people’s lives who had syphilis, a spirochetal infection like…