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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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Recent dispatches
Ontario, Canada: Battle with Lyme disease an education for St. Catharines Grade 3 teacher
t started with her legs vibrating in March 2014. Elementary school teacher Shawna Hughes had dealt with some back…
Scotland, UK: Killer tick-borne parasite imitating malaria-like diseases is discovered by scientists in the UK
November 2019 by Shreyas Tanna Medical Herald A tick-borne parasite which causes a deadly malaria-like illness is spreading in…
Nova Scotia, Canada: Lyme disease conference in Bridgewater draws hundreds – Held in Cineplex theatre
More than 200 health professionals and 500 members of the public turned out to the Lyme Disease Conference at…
Extensive Distribution of the Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato, in Multiple Tick Species Parasitizing Avian and Mammalian Hosts across Canada
Abstract Lyme disease, caused by the spirochetal bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (Bbsl), is typically transmitted by hard-bodied ticks (Acari: Ixodidae).…
Rickettsial infections of the central nervous system
[CanLyme Note: The Canadian medical community is absolutely under-informed on tick-borne disease. Medical leadership in Canada, managed by non-medical (PHAC),…
Tick-borne disease can be transmitted in as little as 15 seconds of attachment new study reveals.
[CanLyme Note: In the western regions of North America Dermacentor andersonii is a major vector of Rickettsia rickettsii. Because rickettsial infections in…
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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Combining public participatory surveillance and occupancy modelling to predict the distributional response of Ixodes scapularis to climate change
Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2018, Pages 695-706 David J Lieske, Vett K. Lloyd https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.01.018 Abstract Ixodes scapularis, a known vector of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu…
Citizen Science and Community Engagement in Tick Surveillance-A Canadian Case Study.
Healthcare 2018, 6(1), 22; doi:10.3390/healthcare6010022 Julie Lewis, Corinne R. Boudreau, James W. Patterson, Jonathan Bradet-Legris, Vett K. Lloyd Abstract Lyme disease…
Lyme disease in Ireland: This is a global threat that is being denied by government bureaucrats around the world who are tied to the United States Center for Disease Control.
Article on Lyme disease sparks calls for awareness campaign March 11, 2018 A UK SCIENTIST, whose daughter contracted Lyme…
Research tidbit: Lyme disease may directly affect the vagus nerve or the brainstem
World Journal of Cardiology ABSTRACT: AIM: To conduct the first systematic test of the hypothesis that modulation of cardiac…
The Canadian Lyme Consortium, representing scientists, clinicians and patients provides an update regarding government promised research grants.
March 9th, 2018 The Canadian Lyme Consortium, representing a united and transparent relationship between patients, clinicians and researchers has…
Ticks Creep Into Canada, Bringing Lyme Disease (and Confusion) With Them
March 7th, 2018 JOANNE SEIFF, a resident of Manitoba, contracted Lyme disease a couple of years ago but didn’t…
The Financial Implications of a Well-Hidden and Ignored Chronic Lyme Disease Pandemic
Healthcare 2018, 6(1), 16; doi:10.3390/healthcare6010016 Marcus Davidsson Abstract: 1 million people are predicted to get infected with Lyme disease in the…
Neurosciences : comment pensent les anticonformistes ?
February 25th, 2018 Que se passe-t-il dans le cerveau d’un homme qui choisit de s’affranchir de l’opinion commune ? Les neurosciences s’intéressent depuis de…
Neuroscience: how do contrarians think?
February 25, 2018 (translated from French)… What happens in the brain of a man who chooses to free himself…