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.
Get help for Lyme
Recognizing symptoms and learning how to talk to your doctor are the first steps towards treatment.
Learn more about Lyme
Understanding Lyme disease is the best way to prevent, diagnose and treat it.
Get the facts
Get the facts on ticks and tick-borne diseases. There are many myths!
Recent dispatches
Vision, passion and tireless work: A tribute to Jim Wilson, the founder of CanLyme
Wilson was a ‘fearless Lyme warrior’ who championed the rights of patients, CanLyme’s president says.
How biobanks are revolutionizing medical research – and why Canada needs one for Lyme disease
Lyme disease is a rapidly evolving problem in Canada that won’t just disappear, CanLyme expert warns.
Save the date for the Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference: November 8 and 9
Join other healthcare practitioners for two days of presentations on diagnosis and treatment of Lyme and other tick-borne disease.
Lyme Disease Awareness Month in Canada: Some big wins but major challenges lie ahead
There’s more awareness of tick-borne illnesses and promising research but progress has been slow.
Helping kids stay safe in the outdoors, and at camp
Get our free downloadable camp kit with posters and a campfire song!
The persistent problem of Long Lyme disease
There’s a stubborn lack of significant change in Canada regarding the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.
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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$2 million gift boosts University of Guelph Lyme research lab
A Canadian research lab dedicated to the study of Lyme disease got a big boost in November with a…
ILADS 2024: Moving the needle on tick borne disease
Every year more Canadian health care practitioners are realizing the importance of tick borne and other chronic infections and…
CDC reconfirms Chronic Lyme, denies effectiveness of more antibiotics
Animal models of the disease show that persistent symptoms may be due to an interplay between persistent infection, immune…
Travel makes tick diseases tougher to diagnose, paper finds
Climate change and increased travel are leading to significant diagnostic challenges and shifting epidemiology.
Machine learning algorithms help predict tick-borne pathogen risk across Europe
Climate and vegetation factors were stronger predictors of ticks than hosts.
Study: Current and emerging approaches for alleviating persistent Lyme disease
Prevention and the need for better diagnostic tools also recognized by researchers.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Borrelia burgdorferi – an excellent backgrounder on Lyme disease for biologists
By the end of the review, you may discover that you have more in common with the bemused Arthur…
Recent snapshot of ticks, pathogens, and mammalian hosts in Southern Ontario and Quebec
Interrogating mammal species richness as a predictor of the number of pathogens in black-legged ticks.