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
Parenting When Children Have Lyme Disease: Fear, Frustration, Advocacy
Emilie M. Gaudet 1 , Odette N. Gould 1,*, Vett Lloyd 2 1 Department of Psychology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB E4L…
Illinois expands insurance coverage for those with tick-borne diseases and children requiring EpiPens
[CanLyme Note: Yet another U.S. state ignores the baseless dogma of the private group the Infectious Disease Society of America…
Global TV News: Why Lyme disease is on the rise, explained
[CanLyme Note: Both AIDS and Lyme disease arose as an issue in the late 1970’s with the first case…
Listen to CanLyme president Jim Wilson on CBC radio – Radio Canada International
August 5th, 2019 [CanLyme Note: This is just one of several interviews given by Jim Wilson the morning of August…
Lumby, BC, August 27th. – Join US for a Lyme Presentation
When: August 27th, 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 PM Where: White Valley Community Hall, 2250 Shields Ave., Lumby, BC Presenter: Jim…
Join Us in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia for Lyme presentation
Jennifer MacLean and Amy Haynes-Desjardins have arranged for a Lyme and other tick-borne disease presentation to be held 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.
Learn to protect yourself
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More news
How does Lyme disease spread? The answer may lie in the hearts of grouse
University of New Brunswick forestry students ask hunters to collect bird hearts for disease study Shane Fowler, CBC News…
Why Donate to CanLyme? CanLyme Research Dollars Funding Young Scientists for our Future Gain.
Help us help you and your family. Monthly or one-time donations are needed. We are an all volunteer organization…
Lyme bug stronger than antibiotics in animals and test tubes. Now study people.
[CanLyme note: This article supports the Canadian patient’s request of federal and provincial governments to stop blatantly endorsing the Infectious…
New study released from British Columbia supports what patient groups have been saying since 1989
[CanLyme Note: In a quick review of this newly published paper it both gave us hope that progress is slowly…
Selective Essential Oils from Spice or Culinary Herbs Have High Activity against Stationary Phase and Biofilm Borrelia burgdorferi
Front. Med., 11 October 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2017.00169 Jie Feng, Shuo Zhang, Wanliang Shi, Nevena Zubcevik, Judith Miklossy, Ying Zhang Although…
MacLean’s magazine: How the new impatient patient is disrupting medicine
Patient activists have never been as vocal. But are they truly being heard? Anne Kingston October 21, 2017In late…
Oakville, ON: Lyme disease panel discussion to take place Nov. 3, 2017
Encourage your physician to attend!! Speakers will be… Dr. Ralph Hawkins, Internal Medicine specialist, Calgary, AB Dr. Tim…
Prof. Christian Perronne, MD, PhD, outlines his history and the history of resistance within mainstream medicine regarding Lyme disease.
Christian Perronne, MD, PhD, is Professor of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine Paris-Ile de France-Ouest,…
Researcher says tick-borne disease Borrelia has grown exponentially in Finland
October 5th, 2017 New research finds that ticks are not only becoming more common in Finland but incidents of…