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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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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
New Podcast: Lyme and outdoor safety for teaching children
Sarah is excited to announce a new Educator Resource for Lyme disease, and speak with the lead resource developer,…
People working in our forests are at risk for tick borne disease – Sarah and Tim Tchida talk tick safety in treeplanting
February 2, 2021 What can employers do to protect staff who work in the outdoors? In today’s podcast, Sarah…
Genetic Manipulation of Borrelia Spp
Abstract The spirochetes Borrelia (Borreliella) burgdorferi and Borrelia hermsii, the etiologic agents of Lyme disease and relapsing fever, respectively, cycle in nature between an…
Borrelia miyamotoi-An Emerging Human Tick-Borne Pathogen in Europe
[CanLyme Note: Canada has Borrelia miyamotoi coast to coast in ticks.] January 12, 2021 Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is classified as a…
Bartonella henselae Neuroretinitis: A Rare Coinfection in POEMS Syndrome
Abstract Bartonella henselae is a recognized cause of neuroretinitis in cat scratch disease. Meanwhile, polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy,…
New Podcast: Tick testing, active surveillance, and participatory science, with Dr. Vett Lloyd from Mount Allison University
This week, we are very excited to speak with one of Canada’s foremost tick and Lyme disease researchers, Dr.…
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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‘Scary World’ of Generic Drug Manufacturing, Revealed
[CanLyme Note: This is very important for those being treated for Lyme disease who may not be responding to the…
First US human bite from worrying longhorned tick noted
“The tick was found in the United States for the first time in 2017 on a sheep in New…
Tick found south of North Bay tested positive for Lyme disease
The yearly trend indicates that there is an increased presence of blacklegged ticks testing positive in our district. The…
TICKED OFF Deadly ticks carrying Ebola-like Congo fever ‘found in UK after spreading across Europe’
June 19th, 2019 A TICK capable of carrying killer Ebola-like viruses has been found in the UK after spreading…
NBC Today Show: Magician spends years trying to solve his medical mystery
Mentalist and magician Max Major is an expert at perception and making things disappear. But for most of his…
Breakthrough paves way for new Lyme disease treatment
published June 17th, 2019 A Virginia Tech biochemist has discovered the cellular component that contributes to Lyme arthritis, a debilitating…
Co-infection of bacteria and protozoan parasites in Ixodes ricinus nymphs collected in the Alsace region, France
[CanLyme Note: ‘No Tick is a Good Tick’ Canadian ticks are equally co-infected.] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2019.06.001 Abstract Fifty nymphal Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in…
Deadly tick-borne virus cured with experimental flu drug, in mice
Bourbon virus has sickened people in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma June 13, 2019 “Without the flu drug, 100 percent…
Rocky Mountain spotted fever: Mom warns after son’s tick-borne illness
[CanLyme Note: This is why our motto is ‘No Tick is a Good Tick’. Physicians have got to stop telling…