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
Lyme disease on the rise according to experts
August 20, 2014 09:47:10 PM | Last updated: August 20, 2014 09:47:10 PM Every year, hundreds of Canadians are diagnosed with…
Ticks may transmit disease faster than currently thought
BY SHEREEN LEHMAN Fri Aug 22, 2014 1:12pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Brazilian ticks that carry Rocky…
Lyme disease growing increasingly common in Quebec
Originating in Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s, the disease has now made its way North. Quebec’s first cases emerged…
Cases of poorly understood Lyme disease continue to grow in Alberta
BY DAVE DORMER ,CALGARY SUN August 16, 2014 While it has yet to establish a real foothold in Alberta,…
High-throughput screening of tick-borne pathogens in Europe
Lorraine Michelet; Sabine Delannoy; Elodie Devillers; Gérald Umhang; Anna Aspan; Mikael Juremalm; Jan Chirico; Fimme J. van der Wal;…
Listen to Voice America talk radio Family Caregivers Unite – Lyme disease
Informing Family Caregivers about Vector-Borne Illnesses such as Lyme borreliosis. CanLyme founder and president Jim Wilson and G.Magnotta Foundation…
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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Living with Lyme
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Lyme disease fears prompt BC government to fund clinic
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For physicians
No tick is a good tick. Any tick that will bite a human may carry various infectious pathogens. Ticks will…
CanLyme urges public to be “tick aware” this season
Lyme disease is the fastest growing infectious disease in North America. The United States reports over 30,000 cases annually,…
Lyme disease documentary makes Oscar’s shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced last week that the highly acclaimed Lyme disease documentary, Under…
BC Lyme disease victims rally at the legislature
Scores of Lyme disease victims rallied today at the BC Legislature calling for better medical treatment.
Number of Lyme disease victims rises in BC
The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation has already received calls from many people in BC who have found ticks on…