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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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Recent dispatches
Come and join with CanLyme in the screening of “The Quiet Epidemic”
May 18th, 2023 May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and CanLyme is hosting an on-demand screening of the critically…
Murphy signs law requiring N.J. students to learn about tick-borne diseases
New Jersey students will be required to learn about tick-borne diseases starting next school year under a bipartisan law…
Join CanLyme for a screening of the Quiet Epidemic
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and CanLyme is hosting an on-demand screening of the critically acclaimed documentary, The Quiet…
Join us for a screening of The Quiet Epidemic
May is Lyme Disease awareness month and CanLyme is helping to raise awareness by hosting an online screening of…
Lyme Disease Is On The Rise–And Climate Change Is To Blame
Chatelaine – by Zeahaa Rehman April 25th, 2023 “Maggie McColl first heard the joke about Lyme disease at a public…
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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Neuropathogenicity of non-viable Borrelia burgdorferi ex vivo
January 2022 Abstract Even after appropriate treatment, a proportion of Lyme disease patients suffer from a constellation of symptoms,…
Tick season is upon us
Insects are emerging as the weather warms up and tick season has arrived March 25th, 2022 Now that warmer…
Evidence of Manipulated Lyme Disease Diagnostics Presented to Suffolk County, NY Health Commissioner
TruthCures Fri, March 11, 2022, 6:00 AM Nonprofit Group Seeks Remedy for Decades of Inaccurate Lyme Disease Testing GREAT…
Multidisciplinary Management of Suspected Lyme Borreliosis: Clinical Features of 569 Patients, and Factors Associated with Recovery at 3 and 12 Months, a Prospective Cohort Study
Abstract Introduction. Because patients with a suspicion of Lyme borreliosis (LB) may have experienced difficult care paths, the Tick-Borne…
Ticks survive for 27 years in entomologist’s lab
by Binghamton University February 22, 2022 Food is necessary for survival, but an East African species of ticks adapted to…
Risk of post-treatment Lyme disease in patients with ideally-treated early Lyme disease: A prospective cohort study.
Abstract Purpose Post-treatment Lyme disease (PTLD) is characterized by patient-reported symptoms after treatment for Borrelia burgdorferi infection. The primary aim of…
Estimating the Frequency of Lyme Disease Diagnoses, United States, 2010–2018
Abstract By using commercial insurance claims data, we estimated that Lyme disease was diagnosed and treated in ≈476,000 patients…
Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi in Atlantic Canadian wildlife
Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi are tick-vectored zoonotic pathogens maintained in wildlife species. Tick populations are establishing in new areas globally…
Lyme-carrying ticks live longer–and could spread farther–thanks to warmer winters
[CanLyme Note: The research referred to in this article was aided by a grant via the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation’s…