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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
Lyme Disease Frontiers: Reconciling Borrelia Biology and Clinical Conundrums
Abstract Lyme disease is a complex tick-borne zoonosis that poses an escalating public health threat in several parts of…
How do infections like the coronavirus jump from animals to people?
National Geographic “Zoonotic diseases, which pass from animals to humans, kill millions of people every year. Where do they…
Monitoring of Nesting Songbirds Detects Established Population of Blacklegged Ticks and Associated Lyme Disease Endemic Area in Canada
Abstract This study provides a novel method of documenting established populations of bird-feeding ticks. Single populations of the blacklegged…
Best advice yet on COVID-19 from front line expert… important for Lyme sufferers.
FYI… Best good advice on COVID-19 that applies to us all by a front line physician at one of…
Watch as Canadian and International experts Present at Nova Scotia conference
Excellent presentations at Nova Scotia conference, fall 2019. Watch now
Dr. Ralph G. Hawkins: Bridging Differences
Dr. Ralph Hawkins gave an excellent talk at the Bridgewater, N.S. conference where he delved into the many problems…
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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Les groupes de patients canadiens atteints de la maladie de Lyme se sont unis pour rejeter le concept du gouvernement fédéral fondé sur un réseau unique de recherche.
Publié le 25 octobre 2018 par Canlyme [Note de CanLyme: Il existe déjà un autre réseau de recherche pancanadien en…
Canadian Lyme disease patient groups united in rejecting the ‘one research network only’ concept of the federal government
[CanLyme Note: There is already another pan-Canadian research network that has been up and running for over a year, the…
CBC: U.S. lab says this 7-year-old has Lyme disease – Canadian MDs won’t even test him
Trent Nimeth suffers as his parents try to get diagnosis from U.S. validated in Canada At only 18-months-old, Trent…
Lyme disease vastly under-detected in Canada, according to new study
Mount A biologist co-authors research that suggests only 3-4% of Lyme cases are officially diagnosed Friday October 20th, 2018…
Genome-wide analysis of Borrelia turcica and ‘Candidatus Borrelia tachyglossi’ shows relapsing fever-like genomes with unique genomic links to Lyme disease Borrelia.
doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2018.09.013 September 18, 2018 ABSTRACT Borrelia are tick-borne bacteria that in humans are the aetiological agents of Lyme…
‘I don’t wish this on my worst enemy’: Caledon-area woman says Canada’s medical system is failing people living with Lyme disease
Oct. 2, 2018 Caledon Enterprise newspaper Janice Barry was at a vet office in Alliston with her dog when…
One in three ticks in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, carries Lyme disease yet no help for the tens of thousands chronically ill across the country due to false information.
[CanLyme note: For decades Canadian health care leadership have downplayed the prevalence of Lyme disease (borreliosis) in ticks based upon…
Breaking News: Canada Acknowledges In Utero Transmission of Lyme Disease!
Canadians Concerned About Lyme Disease OCT 5, 2018 – “What is the value of one child’s life?” As Canadians,…
CHCH TV Hamilton: Niagara man diagnosed with Lyme disease heading overseas for treatment
October 3rd, 2018 For a Niagara man diagnosed with Lyme disease, being able to walk without a cane is…