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
Justin Wood speaks to his complicated diagnosis and treatment path
Justin has a Lyme story that led him to take action and start his company, Geneticks.
CanLyme funding overview of high quality Canadian research projects
Dr. Sarah Keating, Anatomic Pathologist, CanLyme Board Member.
Grappling with the status quo, and making change
We are really looking for a fundamental change and the fundamental change has to be backed up by science.
Highlights from Q&A Panel discussion of The Quiet Epidemic global impact campaign
Thank you so much for your support of our recent two-part educational and fundraising event ~ The Quiet Epidemic.…
Q&A panel FAQ summary – The Quiet Epidemic
The Quiet Epidemic and panel information. I’ve heard of using ant spray with permethrin to keep ticks off socks…
Female ticks (Ixodes scapularis) infected with Borrelia burgdorferi have increased overwintering survival, with implications for tick population growth
Abstract The tick, Ixodes scapularis, vectors pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Over the last few…
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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Nova Scotia: Lyme disease advocacy group pushes for awareness, education, new clinic
[CanLyme Note: Sadly this is the case for most Canadians with Lyme disease who do not present with the over-emphasized…
Experts expect bad year for ticks as disease-carrying bugs expand range in Canada
Lyndsay Armstrong, The Canadian Press HALIFAX – The prevalence of ticks that can carry Lyme disease is expected to…
Heart Failure, Infection, & a Medical Brick Wall
By Steven Phillips, MD “My father developed end-stage heart failure in his early 60’s, despite decades of top cardiology…
Living with Lyme: Tiny Terror the Truth About Ticks
May 25, 2022 Good Documentary by a News Reporter that has Been Through it Herself Watch full video
This Tick Can Make You Allergic to Meat, and It’s Spreading
Work on genetically modified pigs might provide a solution to the strange illness “Kristina Carlson didn’t think much about…
BCCDC releases map of risk areas where people could contract Lyme disease
The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control has updated its information on Lyme disease in the province. A Facebook…
Une quinzaine de cliniques déployées pour qu’on prenne en charge les symptômes de la COVID longue et de la maladie de Lyme
QUÉBEC, le 19 mai 2022 /CNW Telbec/ – Le ministre de la Santé et des Services sociaux, Christian Dubé, annonce aujourd’hui…
Montreal Gazette: Quebec opening 15 long-COVID and Lyme disease clinics
[CanLyme Note: If these clinics as regards to Lyme disease are to be bound to follow the current Association of…
CBC News: This Toronto woman says she’s ‘living in hell’ as ticks invade her back yard
May 18, 2022 Michelle Snider says she’s has had to pull 25 to 30 ticks off her dogs and…