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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
SPECIAL REPORT The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades
[CanLyme Note: Any research that showed that infectious diseases such as Lyme disease have been found to have a role…
Responses to: Combatting Lyme disease myths and the ‘chronic Lyme industry’ – Canadian Medical Association Journal
LymeNB reacts to CMAJ news article: Combatting Lyme disease myths and the ‘chronic Lyme industry’ by Wendy Glauser, Toronto.…
1990 archive, MacLean’s magazine: A growing menace
[CanLyme Note: Here we are 30 years later since the formation of the Lyme Borreliosis Society of BC, later…
The Lunenburg Lyme Association (LLA) is happy to announce a free Lyme Disease Conference (Nov. 16 -17)
Please share to all your contacts and on social media!! The Lunenburg Lyme Association (LLA) is happy to announce…
Watch TV news series on Lyme disease…. Lyme and Reason
Segment 1 LYME AND REASON: THE CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE OF LYME DISEASE Segment 2 LYME AND REASON: BATTLES AND…
A Multiple Streams Approach to Understanding the Issues and Challenges of Lyme Disease Management in Canada’s Maritime Provinces
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 May; 16(9): 1531. Published online 2019 Apr 30. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16091531 Mario Levesque and Matthew Klohn Abstract…
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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France – Maladie de Lyme: 300 malades vont déposer plainte au pénal dès janvier
Dec 20, 2017 300 personnes atteintes de la maladie de Lyme vont porter plainte au pénal, début janvier. Des…
France – Maladie de Lyme: 300 malades vont déposer plainte au pénal dès janvier
Dec 20, 2017 300 personnes atteintes de la maladie de Lyme vont porter plainte au pénal, début janvier. Des…
Lyme in the maritimes: Health P.E.I. should re-evaluate efforts at prevention and diagnosis of tick-borne diseases
BY CHRIS ROBINSON [ – Chris Robinson is a health economist / epidemiologist, and former head of Evidence and Risk…
Saskatoon women frustrated with provincial testing methods for Lyme disease
Erin Petrow, Saskatoon Starphoenix January 8th, 2018 When Danielle Briske started having severe migrating muscle pain and weakness, plus…
Legislative Package To Fight Lyme Disease Introduced In NY
December 29th, A package of state legislation aimed at fighting Lyme and tick-borne diseases is being introduced ahead of…
Canadian legend passes away – helped raise money for CanLyme – Johnny Bower
December 27th, 2017 Johnny Bower, Canadian hockey legend and amazing humanitarian passed away on December 26th, 2017. He was…
CANADA, CASE REPORT: New-onset Bell palsy and Lyme disease
[Canlyme Note: It is important for physicians to be aware that treatment duration is to be determined by the clinical…
You must check your pets paws for ticks!!
Daily tick checks and using tick repellents on your pets is a must when you live in a tick…
Spain has significant risk areas for contracting Lyme disease (borreliosis)
Molecular identification of Borrelia spirochetes in questing Ixodes ricinus from northwestern Spain Published online December 20th, 2107 Pablo Diaz et al ABSTRACT Background…