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.
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Recognizing symptoms and learning how to talk to your doctor are the first steps towards treatment.
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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
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…
Complete Remission in Paralytic Late Tick-Borne Neurological Disease Comprising Mixed Involvement of Borrelia, Babesia, Anaplasma, and Bartonella: Use of Long-Term Treatments with Antibiotics and Antiparasitics in a Series of 10 Cases
Abstract This study aimed to demonstrate that severe neurological motor deficits in the context of late tick-borne disease with…
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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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…
Global TV News: Nova Scotia has the highest tick-to-human ratio in the country: biology professor
By Alexa MacLean, Global News May 17th, 2022 A biology professor who studies ticks for a living says Nova Scotians should…
CanLyme president gives presentation to Seniors’ College Association of Nova Scotia
You can view the entire presentation on the Seniors’ College Association of Nova Scotia website… Watch presentation on their…
Pioneering Lyme pediatrician Charles Ray Jones, who treated successfully many Canadian children with Lyme disease who were abandoned by Canadian healthcare dies at age 93
“Dr. Charles Ray Jones, a trailblazing pediatric Lyme specialist who has treated more than 15,000 children from around the…