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
NBC Today Show: Magician spends years trying to solve his medical mystery
Mentalist and magician Max Major is an expert at perception and making things disappear. But for most of his…
Breakthrough paves way for new Lyme disease treatment
published June 17th, 2019 A Virginia Tech biochemist has discovered the cellular component that contributes to Lyme arthritis, a debilitating…
Co-infection of bacteria and protozoan parasites in Ixodes ricinus nymphs collected in the Alsace region, France
[CanLyme Note: ‘No Tick is a Good Tick’ Canadian ticks are equally co-infected.] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2019.06.001 Abstract Fifty nymphal Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in…
Deadly tick-borne virus cured with experimental flu drug, in mice
Bourbon virus has sickened people in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma June 13, 2019 “Without the flu drug, 100 percent…
Rocky Mountain spotted fever: Mom warns after son’s tick-borne illness
[CanLyme Note: This is why our motto is ‘No Tick is a Good Tick’. Physicians have got to stop telling…
Nova Scotia woman behind ‘AtlanTick’ tick repellent shares her children’s struggle with Lyme disease
June 11, 2019 When it comes to her kids, Mahone Bay’s Lisa Ali-Learning isn’t taking any chances. So when…
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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With great sadness we report that the Canadian Lyme community has lost a valuable friend and asset.
Debra Fraleigh, an articulate and caring individual who worked endlessly behind the scenes researching evidence, evaluating government and medical…
Listen to today’s testimony of Dr. Ralph Hawkins, Dr. Liz Zubek, Canadian Blood Services and the Public Health Agency of Canada in the standing health committee.
June 8th, 2017 You can listen to the interesting testimony here… Dr. Njoo from the Public Health Agency of…
June 6th, 2017: Watch patient and expert testimony before parliamentary standing committee on health .
Watch presentations before the federal all party standing committee on health as they discuss what was purported to be…
Patients excluded by federal framework – 4 million to be squandered on yet more data gathering.
May 30th, 2017 Global TV News The federal framework released by government embraces the status quo and cedes responsibility…
CBC radio: Lyme patient and researcher question government framework.
Lyme disease patient from Quebec and then, research scientist from University of Alberta draws into question testing and treatment…
CBC News Montreal: Doctors afraid of losing their licence if they diagnose and treat Lyme disease properly
May 28th, 2017 When Arlene Rill was bitten by a tick in Montreal three years ago, she knew nothing about Lyme…
Canada-wide VOCAL events planned for June 3rd, 2017
VOCAL – Voices Of Canadians About Lyme June 3rd, 2017 As Canadians in every province and territory become increasingly…
Global TV: Ontario resident’s struggle with Lyme disease and the medical system.
May 21st, 2017 Tick season raises Lyme disease concerns With tick season underway, a Canadian woman shares her personal…