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.

Get help for Lyme

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.

Get the facts

Get the facts on ticks and tick-borne diseases. There are many myths! 

Recent dispatches

Bill to combat Lyme disease heads to Pres. Obama for signature

ByTeamDec 7, 20161 min read

December 7th, 2016 WASHINGTON (NEWS10) – The U.S. Senate passed legislation to combat Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. The…

Ceftriaxone Pulse Dosing Fails to Eradicate Biofilm-Like Microcolony B. burgdorferi Persisters Which Are Sterilized by Daptomycin/ Doxycycline/Cefuroxime without Pulse Dosing

ByTeamNov 30, 20163 min read

Published Nov 2016 Abstract   Although the majority of Lyme disease patients can be cured, at least 10–20% of…

Australia: A Senate inquiry has recommended urgent government funding for research into tick-borne disease in Australia.

ByTeamNov 30, 20161 min read

Nov. 30th, 2016 Inquiry calls for Lyme funding, research   A Senate committee has recommended the federal government urgently…

BC Centre for Disease Control warns about ticks infected with Lyme-related bacteria

ByTeamNov 26, 20161 min read

Nov 7th, 2016 Vancouver – A warning from the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) suggests three ticks collected…

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 and Tick-borne Diseases Research Center – Message from the Director

ByTeamJul 21, 20121 min read

This is both a disturbing and an exciting time in the world of Lyme disease. Disturbing because the medical…

Infectious Disease Treatment Guidelines Weakened By Paucity of Scientific Evidence

ByTeamJul 21, 20127 min read

November 13, 2009 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — Two separate analyses presented here at the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)…

Doctors must be allowed to contribute to policy debate without fear. Current system stifles MDs speaking out publicly on their concerns

ByTeamJul 21, 20125 min read

Medical doctors have a great deal to contribute to public policy debates. But the systems that have developed within…

Evidence based medicine, not always best evidence.

ByTeamJul 21, 20121 min read

Evidence Based Medicine began as a “bottom-up” paradigm that taught medical residents to search the literature for the best…

The challenge of Lyme disease: tired of the Lyme wars

ByTeamJul 21, 20121 min read

Few diseases have aroused more emotional attention in the press and the public than Lyme disease.

LYMEPOLICYWONK: Was this important Lyme study hidden for 12 years?

ByTeamJul 21, 20121 min read

The recently published monkey study by Embers and colleagues regarding the persistence of Lyme after antibiotic treatment is important…

The Lyme Disease Controversy

ByTeamJul 21, 20121 min read

The CDC clinical criteria for Lyme Disease which exist for the purpose of monitoring the rate of Lyme disease…

Chronic Lyme Disease in British Columbia

ByTeamJul 21, 20121 min read

A review of Strategic and Policy Issues

Lyme by far most common cause of pediatric meningitis & has distinctive characteristics

ByTeamJul 21, 20121 min read

Lyme meningitis, the major cause of childhood meningitis in an endemic area: A population based study