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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
Squirrels ‘host Lyme disease bugs’
Tuesday 21 April 2015 Grey squirrels are in the dock again – this time for harbouring a serious infection…
Lyme Patient Advocates Denounce Intellectual Conflicts of Interest for Seven IDSA Guidelines Review Panelists
Arlington, VA – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 The Mayday Project–a volunteer organization comprised of those touched by…
Relying on a negative Lyme test can prove deadly. Dr. Dan Cameron
In August of 2013, a 17-year-old boy died suddenly from cardiac arrest. Initially, health officials blamed the Powassan virus…
MacLean’s Magazine: Could Canada cause multiple sclerosis?
[CanLyme Note: Many decades of research, prior to MS being too simply labeled an ‘autoimmune’ disease, showed convincingly that spirochetal…
LYME AND MS HAVING THE SAME ETIOLOGY – Kathy Cavert
LYME AND MS HAVING THE SAME ETIOLOGY From: jwissmille [at] aol [dot] com (JWissmille) Newsgroups: sci.med.diseases.lyme Subject: MS or…
Search and Rescue respond to RCMP’s Challenge taking up the Lyme Sucks Challenge – see who they challenge
Lyme Sucks Challenge 2015 PENSAR is proud to respond to the Penticton RCMP’s Lyme Sucks Challenge and we’ve gone…
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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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…
Virus Disproved as Cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The saga of the retrovirus XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome appears to have ended, now that researchers in a…
New Tick-Borne Disease Found
By Labmedica International staff writers Posted on 17 Sep 2012 A new Phlebovirus, dubbed the “Heartland virus,” is being spread…
Spirochete antigens persist near cartilage after murine Lyme borreliosis therapy.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22728928 J Clin Invest. 2012 Jul 2;122(7):2652-60. doi: 10.1172/JCI58813. Epub 2012 Jun 25. Bockenstedt LK, Gonzalez DG, Haberman AM,…
German expert organization of researchers, physicians, and professors publish objections to Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) guidelines
The German organization Deutsche Borreliose Gesellschaft submitted their evidence based objections to the IDSA much maligned Lyme disease guidelines.…
Lyme disease denial by those we pay to look after us is international for those countries closely associated with the United States Center for Disease Control.
Have we all not heard this government denial before in North America, Great Britain and some Western European countries…