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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
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…
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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New Podcast: Dr. Theoharis Theoharides, Professor of Immunology at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.
Welcome back! Season 2 of the Looking at Lyme podcast starts now. Dr. Theoharides has been on the leading…
Borrelia burgdorferi-Induced Changes in the Class II Self-Immunopeptidome Displayed on HLA-DR Molecules Expressed by Dendritic Cells
September 2020 The MHC class II antigen processing and presentation pathway has evolved to derive short amino acid peptides…
Phase 4 Block of the Right Bundle Branch Suggesting His-Purkinje System Involvement in Lyme Carditis
[CanLyme Note: As new research unfolds we are discovering that borrelia other than Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) are pathogenic to humans. Much…
Canada’s CTV investigative reporting show W5 explores Lyme disease: Bitten
Nov. 21, 2020 W5 TV show delves into Lyme disease and the lack of proper diagnostics and treatment in…
The Lyme Education, Awareness, and Prevention (LEAP) team announces the release of the first draft of the Educators’ Resource for Lyme Awareness.
The Lyme Education, Awareness, and Prevention (LEAP) team announces the release of the first draft of the Educators’ Resource…
Promising treatment brings new hope for patients with chronic Lyme disease
Nov. 20, 2020 KENDAL, ONT. — Kevin Matthews was a healthy 58 year old trying to ease into a…
Evaluation of pathogen specific urinary peptides in tick-borne illnesses
Abstract Mass spectrometry enhanced by nanotechnology can achieve previously unattainable sensitivity for characterizing urinary pathogen-derived peptides. We utilized mass…
Canada: Microbiome Composition and Borrelia Detection in Ixodes scapularis Ticks at the Northwestern Edge of Their Range
Abstract Lyme disease-causing Borrelia burgdorferi has been reported in 10–19% of Ixodes ticks from Alberta, Canada, where the tick vector Ixodes scapularis is at the…
New Podcast: Lyme: the First Epidemic of Climate Change
“In today’s podcast, Sarah talks about ticks, Lyme disease and climate change with investigative reporter Mary Beth Pfeiffer. She…