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.
Learn more about Lyme
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
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…
Cyclist riding across country to raise awareness of lyme disease
by Kendra Wong – Victoria New posted May 7, 2015 at 1:00 PM Two Ontario cyclists will be starting their…
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
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…
Vascular binding of a pathogen under shear force through mechanistically distinct sequential interactions with host macromolecules
Summary Systemic dissemination of microbial pathogens permits microbes to spread from the initial site of infection to secondary target…
Cotransmission of Divergent Relapsing Fever Spirochetes by Artificially Infected Ornithodoros hermsii
Paul F. Policastro,* Sandra J. Raffel, and Tom G. Schwan Medical Entomology Section, Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain…
Is multiple sclerosis (MS) a symptom of Lyme disease?
…. and why is there no current ongoing aggressive human pathology being done in Canada specific to looking for…
Bartonella spp. Bacteremia and Rheumatic Symptoms in Patients from Lyme Disease–endemic Region
In Response: We offer the following comments to Beard et al. (1) and Raoult (2) regarding their respective responses…