Welcome to the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation
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
Canada: Serious flaws in a medical system lacking medical and scientific ethic
Presenting at a Lyme disease conference held in Bridgewater, NS, in November 2019, it was said that Nova Scotia…
Legal case against IDSA doctors making progress
[CanLyme Note: In this case the IDSA means Infectious Disease Society of America who are the defendant doctors. The Lyme…
Lyme documentary: Faces of Lyme – Ambivalence & Controversy
Every province in Canada is now endemic for Lyme disease.
What’s driving the explosion in Lyme Disease in Canada?
In today’s Big Story podcast, it’s a disease we never expected to see with any regularity in Canada, only…
Time for Canada to follow U.S. recognition of mother-to-fetus Lyme disease transmission, says Mount Allison biologist
Andrew Rankin (arankin [at] herald [dot] ca) February 11, 2020 SACKVILLE, N.B. – The federal U.S. public health agency…
Excellent Tick Bite Prevention video from Lunenburg Lyme Association, Nova Scotia
Produced for the Lunenburg Lyme Association in collaboration with and support from CanLyme (Rob Murray, a CanLyme board member)…
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.
Learn to protect yourself
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More news
Canadian Lyme Consortium research network wants you! Such an important cause, please read and pass along.
June 23, 2018 Hi Folks, CanLyme is a proud and active supporter of the Canadian Lyme Consortium research network…
To Hell and Back: denial of access to health care in Canada. Another disgraceful failure of the Public Health Agency of Canada, now a Human Rights issue
June 19th, 2018 This is another example of the disgraceful anti-science, anti-collaborative management of health care in Canada. Federal and…
INFORMED CONSENT – a patient’s right… a physician’s requirement to become informed BEFORE informing the patient.
This is related to all medical practice not just Lyme borreliosis. We have inserted our comments. “Patients have…
Corruption and Human Rights Violations Against Lyme Doctors, Scientists and Parents Now on United Nations Record
The 2018 Report ‘The Situation of the Human Rights Defenders of Lyme and Relapsing Fever Borreliosis Patients’ was submitted…
Province of Nova Scotia publicly makes false claims regarding Lyme disease.
June 3, 2018 Chronicle Herald – Public health failing to address Lyme disease crisis, says author From the article titled…
Lyme disease in Saskatchewan ticks, and dog ticks can infect Borrelia miyamotoi.
The vast majority of ticks found in Saskatchewan are Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick), a species not known to…
A heart specialist in Kingston, Ont. is warning health care professionals across the country to be on the lookout for a rare but serious complication of Lyme disease
May 30th, 2018 A heart specialist in Kingston, Ont. is warning health care professionals across the country to be…
CBC radio show ‘Because News’ does a disservice to Canadians. Lacking science and ethics.
CBC radio show Because News aired a segment on Lyme disease on May 28th, 2018 that got patients and…
Nova Scotians continue to be affected by Lyme disease
May 26th, 2018 Virginia Smith will have to wait before finding out whether she’s the victim of another nasty…