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.
Learn more about Lyme
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
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…
Capture Sequencing Enables Sensitive Detection of Tick-Borne Agents in Human Blood
March 7, 2022 Abstract Assay sensitivity can be a limiting factor in the use of PCR as a tool…
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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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…
CanLyme board member gives informative interview on radio
CanLyme board member Shelley Ball is interviewed on radio in Ontario. Discusses a broad range of topics including addressing…
Public Health Agency of Canada receives critical review of revisions to Lyme information on their publicly funded website.
September 4, 2020 This critique is a collaborative effort of several groups/organizations that represent Canadians living Lyme disease in…
Failed Disruption of Tick Feeding, Viability, and Molting after Immunization of Mice and Sheep with Recombinant Ixodes ricinus Salivary Proteins IrSPI and IrLip1
Abstract To identify potential vaccine candidates against Ixodes ricinus and tick-borne pathogen transmission, we have previously sequenced the salivary gland transcriptomes…
MP Elizabeth May speaks to the challenge of updating medical best practices and the continued rise of ticks and Lyme disease
“She describes how she first learned about the severity of Lyme disease when speaking to a woman from Pictou,…