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
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…
CTV News Atlantic: Mother struggles to get adequate help within the Canadian health care system for her young daughter who has Lyme.
Sadly this lack of help for adequate Lyme disease treatment is a Canada-wide problem due in large part to…
UoGuelph’s G Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab receives $1.2M for research
May, 2022 “With more ticks and tick bites occurring in Canada year after year, better diagnosis of Lyme disease…
Hotdocs film festival screens “The Quiet Epidemic” on Lyme disease
Watch this new trailer on Lyme disease being screened this week at the Hotdocs Festival in Toronto. “Lyme Disease…
The Platelet Fraction is a Novel Reservoir to Detect Lyme Borrelia in Blood
Abstract Serological diagnosis of Lyme disease suffers from considerable limitations. Yet, the technique cannot currently be replaced by direct…
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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More news
New Podcast: Back to the lab with Dr. Melanie Wills from the G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab at the University of Guelph
“In this episode Sarah talks research, Canadian research that is, with Dr. Melanie Wills. She is the Director of…
A message to Canadian Lyme disease patients from W5 TV show. They want you!!
“Hello all, If you are receiving this email then you and I have spoken about the documentary W5 is…
Unintended Consequences: The Perils of Publication and Citation Bias
“The system of scientific communication appears to be more fragile than was once believed.” Decisions made by individuals with…
New podcast: Dr. Alexis Cheney from Vermont outlines her expertise on Lyme disease
“In this episode, Sarah hears from Alexis Chesney, a naturopathic physician in Vermont who specializes in Lyme disease and…
HOW THE INCIDENCE OF AN EM RASH CAN BE INFLATED
[CanLyme Note: In Canada the percentage of people who have a rash with Lyme disease is much lower than stated.…
New Podcast: Exploring co-infections, Bartonella, and mental health effects of Lyme disease
“Sarah speaks with Dr. Thomas Moorcroft, a physician from Connecticut who specializes in Lyme disease and Lyme-related infections. He…
Mount Allison University: PPE student Michael Nolan researches ticks and Lyme disease with wildlife management focus
Third-year Philosophy, Politics, and Economics student Michael Nolan spent his summer researching a new area of study for him…
McMaster University doing research on Lyme disease and pregnancy.
The McMaster Midwifery Research Centre is recruiting people initially to complete an online survey if they have had at…
New Podcast: Discussing the effects of Lyme disease on the brain with Dr. Leo Shea III
In this episode Sarah talks about the effects of Lyme disease on the brain with Dr. Shea, a senior…