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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
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…
Watch excellent video on the life and feeding cycle of ticks
This video is full of good information on how ticks successfully infect people and other animals with diseases. Although…
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
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…
Lyme disease may lurk in your own backyard
Bite from deer tick a health nightmare, By: [Dr.] W. Gifford-Jones / The Doctor Game Do you believe you…
Lyme retreatment guidance may be flawed
Deer ticks, Lyme disease, and medical guidance Accepted medical practice discourages antibiotic retreatment in cases where Lyme disease symptoms…
Alzheimer’s disease – a neurospirochetosis. Analysis of the evidence following Koch’s and Hill’s criteria.
“Borrelia burgdorferi was detected in the brain in 25.3% of AD cases analyzed and was 13 times more frequent…
N.S. tick numbers could be rising, says N.B. scientist
Though numbers of ticks carrying Lyme disease in Nova Scotia haven’t been confirmed yet for 2012, one New Brunswick…