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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
Potential treatment for Lyme disease kills bacteria that may cause lingering symptoms, study finds
March 12, 2020 “For decades, the routine treatment for Lyme disease has been standard antibiotics, which usually kill off…
Shania Twain: I’m never going to have my old voice again
March 8, 2020 “She got the tick-borne illness in 2003, and had to undergo open-throat surgery after her voice…
Canadian has brain of 70-year-old after ‘flawed’ test let disease go undiagnosed for years
March 11th, 2018 TORONTO — A young Canadian woman has been left with the brain of a 70-year-old after…
Post-treatment Lyme Disease as a Model for Persistent Symptoms in Lyme Disease
[CanLyme Note: The term post treatment Lyme disease syndrome is controversial and excludes those not effectively treated following the…
A Mystery Illness That Changed My Life
“As I was getting my body ready for my 1st pregnancy, my doctor at the time was running blood…
Borrelia burgdorferi hijacks cellular metabolism of immune cells: Consequences for host defense
Abstract Changes in cellular metabolism have proven to be important factors in driving cell behavior. It has been shown…
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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TVA Nouvelles: Le Collège des médecins se défend d’abandonner les malades
TVA Nouvelles | Publié le 21 septembre 2018 Beaucoup de réactions à la suite de notre émission «J.E.» sur les ravages…
Avril Lavigne has released a new single inspired by her battle with Lyme borreliosis.
Good Morning America – September 20th, 2018 Avril Lavigne has released a new single: an emotionally raw piano ballad…
Ticks do not only transmit Lyme disease: After Tularemia Death, Experts Stress Education
[Learn more about tularemia ] Article… September 13, 2018 Julia Wells The Vineyard Gazette With tick-borne diseases a growing matter…
Neuropsychiatric Lyme Borreliosis: An Overview with a Focus on a Specialty Psychiatrist’s Clinical Practice
Pulished August 25, 2018 Robert C Bransfield Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA…
OPINION: We need to do more in Nova Scotia regarding Lyme and tick-borne diseases
By Donna Lugar in the Chronicle Herald, Sept. 11, 2018 … It is unfortunate that Nova Scotia’s top doctor…
The Situation of Human Rights Defenders of Lyme and Relapsing Fever Borreliosis Patients: Edition One March 6, 2018
Thanks to the tremendous effort of Jenna Luché-Thayer the report was presented at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in…
Ground Breaking Recognition of Lyme Borreliosis in 11th International Classification of Diseases – World Health Organization
[CanLyme Note: CanLyme was represented on the international Ad Hoc Committee for Health Equity in ICD11 Borreliosis Codes by CanLyme president…
Lyme-disease-carrying ticks a growing problem in Ontario as ticks climb tops of tall grass waiting for victims
[CanLyme Note: this article includes some information we disagree with. Treating with a single dose of antibiotics lacks GRADE…
Woman walks away from wheelchair after recovering from Lyme disease
July 23, 2018 Chronicle Herald by Nikki Sullivan PORT CALEDONIA – Melissa Boutilier knows how quickly life can change…