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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
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…
New podcast: Wilderness first aid training and Lyme prevention
“In today’s podcast, Sarah examines the importance of adequate training in wilderness first aid skills. She speaks with expert…
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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Response by Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer of Health relative to Lyme disease comes under serious scrutiny as to it’s relevance to ‘true’ science.
[CanLyme Note: Dr. Strang’s response below to CanLyme director Rob Murray’s letter from January 2019 (below) demonstrates an alarming lack…
Lyme disease at the forefront during New Brunswick roundtable tick discussion
Global News “Our public healthcare system should be dealing with this appropriately and it’s not clearly, and it needs…
Toronto Sun: Ticks: A ticking Lyme bomb
May 26th, 2019 Nice weather is here and you’re out and about? Be on the lookout for eight-legged menaces…
The association between infectious burden and Parkinson’s disease: A case-control study
Abstract Introduction The etiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD) remains unclear. The aim of this study was to examine the…
Recommendations for Reducing the Risk of Transfusion-Transmitted Babesiosis, a tick-borne disease
[CanLyme Note: Canadian Blood Services does in-house studies with no input from the public and their experts. We, the…
Listen to Dr. Ralph Hawkins discuss Lyme disease on CBC radio in New Brunswick.
Fredericton, NB: Dr. Ralph Hawkins is a Calgary physician and one of this country’s leading voices in the fight…
Vancouver couple believe Lyme disease played role in son’s suicide
[CanLyme Note: Suicide is one of the most commonly reported causes of death related to Lyme disease, far ahead of…
As Lyme disease rapidly spreads in Canada, there is no immediate test to detect it
Experts say precaution is crucially important May 17th, 2019 by Anam Khan, GUELPHTODAY.com As the warmer weather finally sets…
Long time Lyme disease patient advocate warns Nova Scotians about ticks and medical practices
[CanLyme Note: Here we are in 2019 and doctors are still telling patients not to worry about a tick attachment.…