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.
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Get the facts on ticks and tick-borne diseases. There are many myths!
Recent dispatches
Shaw TV’s ‘Go Okanagan’ looks at Lyme Disease, and patients stories as they prepare for the Lyme Sucks Challenge
Lyme disease is becoming more and more prevalent throughout Canada, North America and around the globe. It can be…
Health officials ramp up tick monitoring for Powassan Virus
CityNews reporter Andrea Piunno with what health officials are doing to protect you and what you should watch out…
Global TV: Penticton firefighters take bite out of Lyme disease
PENTICTON – The Lyme Sucks Challenge #lymesuckschallenge may be the next social media craze, at least that’s what Penticton…
IDSA mantra, ‘There is no such thing as chronic Lyme’, linked to most Lyme injuries and deaths: Mayday Project
April 16th, 2015 [IDSA= Infectious Disease Society of America] “Cutler says most injuries and deaths due to Lyme disease…
InFocus Magazine – Ticking Time Bomb
One tiny insect makes a giant impact on some people’s lives and health, and creates a medical controversy By…
“So country” radio of Penticton, BC, interviews CanLyme president
After the Penticton RCMP completed their Lyme Sucks Challenge, ‘So Country’ radio interviewed Jim Wilson, president of CanLyme, discussing…
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.
Learn to protect yourself
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More news
Doctors discover terrifying new tick-borne virus
TAGS:Health, SciTech, USA, Agriculture Scientists say they’re excited over a discovery that they stumbled on thanks to two Missouri…
Farm Use of Antibiotics Defies Scrutiny
September 3, 2012 By SABRINA TAVERNISE The numbers released quietly by the federal government this year were alarming. A…
Emerging incidence of Lyme borreliosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, and granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Australia
Int J Gen Med. 2011; 4: 845–852. Published online 2011 December 16. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S27336 Abstract Background Borrelia burgdorferi,…
Ticks carrying Lyme disease on the rise in N.B.
A rise in the number of ticks carrying Lyme disease in southeastern New Brunswick has biologists looking for samples.…
Emerging Infectious Determinants of Chronic Diseases
Evidence now confirms that noncommunicable chronic diseases can stem from infectious agents. Furthermore, at least 13 of 39 recently…
Antibiotic retreatment of Lyme disease in patients with persistent symptoms: A biostatistical review of randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trials.
Delong AK, Blossom B, Maloney EL, Phillips SE. Source Center for Statistical Sciences, Department of Biostatistics, Brown University, Providence,…
Winnipeg Free Press: Lyme disease may lurk in your own backyard
Bite from deer tick a health nightmare By: W. Gifford-Jones / The Doctor Game Do you believe you must…
Research such as this from Switzerland must be done region by region in North America
Globally, 34.2% of ticks were infected with at least one pathogen. The diversity of tick-borne pathogens detected in I.…
Eva Sapi, Ph.D discusses her extensive Lyme disease research
This video is a 10 minute clip, part of a 70 minute interview with Dr. Sapi from the University…