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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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Recent dispatches
Lyme Sucks Challenge continues: CanLyme founder’s brother and daughter make their challenges.
On April 24th, 2015, the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation’s founder, Jim Wilson, was proud to have his brother, John…
Pamela Weintraub answers: Why do doctors keep fighting about Lyme Disease?
Because the patients are contested “They immediately may send the patient to test for all manner of serious…
Case study: Tick-borne disease babesiosis passed from mother to fetus.
Nickolas D. Surra, MD, John E. Jesus, MD Christiana Care Health Center, Newark, Delaware Published Online: April 18, 2015 Abstract…
Case report: Mother to fetus transmission of Babesia, a tick-borne infection
The Anemic and Thrombocytopenic Febrile Neonate Nickolas D. Surra, MD, John E. Jesus, MD Christiana Care Health Center, Newark,…
Press Release: CROSS CANADA BIKE RIDE FOR LYME DISEASE
St. CATHARINES, ON – APRIL 15, 2015 – At sunrise on May 11, 2015, Niagara natives, 22 year old…
Squirrels ‘host Lyme disease bugs’
Tuesday 21 April 2015 Grey squirrels are in the dock again – this time for harbouring a serious infection…
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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PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED
Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament, has started a petition and is asking that everyone participate in getting as many…
Vancouver, BC: 8th Annual LDF International Scientific Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and other Spirochetal and Tick-borne Diseases: with an emphasis on Mechanisms of Lyme Borreliosis Persistency
1995 International Lyme Disease Conference, Vancouver, BC Opening… John Millar, MD – Provincial Health Officer, British Columbia Diane…
WIDESPREAD DISPERSAL OF BORRELIA BURGDORFERI–INFECTED TICKS COLLECTED [Canada]
Scott JD, Anderson JF, Durden LA J Parasitol. 2012 Feb;98(1):49-59. Epub 2011 Aug 24. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21864130 Abstract Millions of Lyme…
Infectious Disease Society of America not ethical, or science based… yet Canada openly endorses them while allowing no victim’s expert input.
We all have been duped. Infectious Disease [IDSA] Treatment Guidelines Weakened By Paucity of Scientific Evidence Daniel M. Keller, PhD…
Concerns Regarding the Infectious Diseases Society of America Lyme Disease Clinical Practice Guidelines
Reprints or correspondence: Mr. Jim Wilson, Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation, 2495 Reece Rd., Westbank, BC V4T 1N1, Canada. TO…
Attorney General of Connecticut issues press release about finding of his investigation into the Infectious Disease Society of America.
You can read the 2008 press release of Richard Blumenthal in which he outlines the deplorable state of the…
NSW Health moves in the right direction on Lyme disease [Australia]
IN a huge win for Lyme disease sufferers, NSW Health has agreed to encourage doctors to keep an “open…
Sounding the alarm on Lyme Disease
Two decades ago, Wendy Aitken was told by her doctor that she suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia,…
Highlights on molecular identification of closely related species.
Authors: Almeida LA, Araujo R Citation: Infect. Genet. Evol. 2012(Sep) Location: IPATIMUP, Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University…