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
Canada’s Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease passes 2nd reading in the senate.
Second Reading—Debate Adjourned Hon. Janis G. Johnson moved second reading of Bill C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework…
Richard Gunderman, MD – How to Discourage a Doctor
Not accustomed to visiting hospital executive suites, I took my seat in the waiting room somewhat warily. Seated across…
Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes Ticks in Europe and the United States
Chris D. Crowder, Heather E. Carolan, Megan A. Rounds, Vaclav Honig, Benedikt Mothes, Heike Haag, Oliver Nolte, Ben J.…
Ottawa, Canada: Lyme disease can’t keep Manotick baker down
Manotick News By Emma Jackson Veronique Ayling has been dreaming of her own cupcake shop for the better part…
Tick Paralysis in a Snowshoe Hare by Ixodes pacificus Ticks in British Columbia, Canada
J Veter Sci MedAugust 2014 Volume 2 Issue 2 August 29, 2014 AbstractWe provide the first reported case of…
Spotted fever group rickettsiae in multiple hard tick species from Fairfax County, Virginia.
Henning TC, Orr JM, Smith JD, Arias JR, Norris DE. The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and…
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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Miguel’s Story
Current status: Deciding if I should just keep going to Mexico for high dose antibiotics, or allow myself to…
Gayle’s Story
At this point I have no headaches, numbness, dizziness, my memory is back to normal, no stuttering and I…
Mable’s Story
I began to remember the bug bite and ‘sand’ incident and realized that the ‘sand’ must have been a…
Les’ Story
Routine physicals described me as in ‘excellent health’…until the fateful month of June 1990. What followed became an all…
Harriet’s Story
I would forget something I had done only a few minutes before. My speech was slurred, and it was…
Jim A.’s Story
I was a little concerned as I had heard horror stories about Lyme but [my doctor] reassured me that…
Important testing precautions
Time and again, we hear stories from Lyme victims who reported a rash to their doctor (and in some…
Tick removal
Even better than tick removal is to AVOID allowing ticks to attach in the first place. Wearing long pants…
Lyme basics
Lyme disease (often misspelled as “Lime” or “Lymes”) is an inflammatory infection that spreads to humans through tick bites.