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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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Understanding Lyme disease is the best way to prevent, diagnose and treat it.
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Recent dispatches
Exploring the association between Morgellons disease and Lyme disease: identification of Borrelia burgdorferi in Morgellons disease patients
Marianne J Middelveen1, Cheryl Bandoski2, Jennie Burke3, Eva Sapi2, Katherine R Filush2,Yean Wang3, Agustin Franco3, Peter J Mayne1 and…
View live Lyme Disease spirochetes allegedly easily seen in blood following negative “official” testing.
[CanLyme note: Although this video clearly shows a spirochaetal shaped bacteria, it cannot identify what spirochaete it may be.…
Health Care Costs, Utilization and Patterns of Care following Lyme Disease [1.3 billion USD]
[CanLyme note: This study has limitations as noted therein and does not include cost of taxpayer funded disability income…
Australia: Researcher calls for action after those suffering Lyme Disease head abroad…
A TURRAMURRA researcher is calling on the medical fraternity to advocate for recognition of Lyme disease in Australia, both…
Alberta, Canada : Rowe [MLA] wants provincewide strategy to fight Lyme disease
[CanLyme note: It says in the article that 70-80% of people who contract Lyme disease will develop a rash.…
Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases: global challenges in the context of a public health threat
Christian Perronne c [dot] perronne [at] rpc [dot] aphp [dot] fr Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by…
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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Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia canis and Dirofilaria immitis among dogs in Canada.
In Canada, the environmental suitability for Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum vectors, Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus, appears to be…
Science, Fear, and the Realities of Lyme Disease in Canada
I am a scientist and a Lyme disease sufferer, and I am writing to warn you about the realities…
Magnotta Fights Lyme
Magnotta is Ontario’s third largest winery and the only company of its kind in Canada licensed to produce and…
Squamish doctor awarded Order of Canada for years of public service
By Gerry Bellett, Vancouver Sun, August 6, 2009 8:01 PM Dr. LaVerne Clifford Kindree has been admitted to the…
Critical Needs and Gaps in Understanding Prevention, Amelioration, and Resolution of Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases
Committee on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases: The State of the Science; Institute of Medicine
Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolic Rate in Persistent Lyme Encephalopathy
There is controversy regarding whether objective neurobiological abnormalities exist after intensive antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease.
A Twist On Lyme: The Challenge of Diagnosing European Lyme Neuroborreliosis
Lyme neuroborreliosis is a tick-borne illness with central and peripheral nervous system manifestations. Clinical features and methods for accurate…
Lyme and Tick-borne Diseases Research Center – Message from the Director
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
November 13, 2009 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) – Two separate analyses presented here at the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)…