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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: 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,…
Lyme Disease Patient Outcomes and Experiences; A Retrospective Cohort Study
Abstract Lyme disease is a vector-borne illness caused by Borrelia spp. bacterium spread by ticks to humans and other mammals. Despite…
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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More news
OPINION: Lyme science isn’t settled
Patients forging path of 1980s AIDS activists. They should be heard. MARY BETH PFEIFFER Published March 29, 2019 in…
Health P.E.I. tragically mistaken [on Lyme disease]
The Guardian, Chris Robinson Guest Opinion Government bafflegab bothers me, especially when the health of young school-age children is…
Presence of Babesia odocoilei and Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto in a Tick and Dual Parasitism of Amblyomma inornatum and Ixodes scapularis on a Bird in Canada
John D. Scott, Kerry L. Clark and Lance A. Durden published 20 March 2019 Abstract: Wild birds transport ticks…
Lyme disease study raises possibility of mother-to-baby transmission
Andrew Rankin (arankin [at] herald [dot] ca) May 15th, 2019 A scientist who co-authored a recent Public Health Agency of…
This success story cannot happen in Canada without doctors licences being at risk from our very conflict of interest laden health care system that crosses federally to the provinces, then remarkably closely to the United States private organization the Infectious Disease Society of America that is rife with anti-science rhetoric and conflict of interest. Has Canada been the victim of medical fraud? Perhaps.
A family’s fight for their son en route to NCAA tournament history … “Instead of running to the…
The Perils of Invisible Disease and Lyme Related Issues
Abstract The perils of invisible disease and Lyme related issues has brought me full circle in life. I have…
Systemic Sarcoidosis Associated with Exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi in a 21-Year-Old Man
ABSTRACT Objective: Here we describe a rare case of systemic sarcoidosis in a healthy young man with neuroborreliosis as a…
Study of pediatric patients shows two-tier testing results cannot rule out Lyme borreliosis.
Two-Tier Lyme Disease Serology Test Results Can Vary According to the Specific First-Tier Test Used Published: February 22, 2019…
CDC Endorsement of Single Dose Antibiotic for Lyme Disease Prevention Challenged
Advocates claim policy harms patients and violates HHS standards for information quality Washington, DC – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, February…