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
TICK-BORNE DISEASE COLLABORATIVE CARE TO STREAMLINE HELP FOR MANITOBANS
Manitobans Reminded to Check for Ticks: Friesen June 10th, 2019 The Manitoba government is moving forward with the establishment…
Death of Hampton man with rare tick-borne virus probed
[CanLyme Note: Powassan virus was first reported in Powassan, Ontario, Canada in 1958. (McLean DM, McQueen EJ, Petite HE, MacPherson LW,…
CTV News, London ON: Lyme disease devastation Pt. 2
Listen to researcher John Scott’s warning that physician knowledge needs to improve relative to Lyme disease. Watch news clip
CTV News, London ON: Lyme disease devastation Pt. 1
London, Ontario boy’s life was changed dramatically due to Lyme disease and family had to leave Canada seeking help.…
Response by Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer of Health relative to Lyme disease comes under serious scrutiny as to it’s relevance to ‘true’ science.
[CanLyme Note: Dr. Strang’s response below to CanLyme director Rob Murray’s letter from January 2019 (below) demonstrates an alarming lack…
Lyme disease at the forefront during New Brunswick roundtable tick discussion
Global News “Our public healthcare system should be dealing with this appropriately and it’s not clearly, and it needs…
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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More news
Latest Lyme disease risk map for Nova Scotia
Lyme disease carrying species of ticks, Ixodes scapularis, have been in Nova Scotia for decades There is no part…
Watch Mount Allison University Lyme Research Network announcement partnering with the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation
May 5th, 2017 One of the pillars within the mission statement of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation is promoting…
Mount Allison University and Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation announce partnership in research.
Mount A researchers uniting expertise against Lyme disease May 5th, 2017 CumberlandNewsNow.com Fourteen researchers have come together to form…
Listen to retired rheumatologist Dr. Al Miller discuss Lyme disease as relates to ALS and other diagnoses
Lots of good information on the failings of current guidelines and testing as well as the relationship of Lyme…
Listen to AM 740 radio interview with CanLyme president Jim Wilson
Zoomer AM 740 radio interview with CanLyme president Jim Wilson May 1st, 2017 Lyme disease a serious and growing…
PGA Champion Jimmy Walker diagnosed with Lyme Disease
Published: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 | 2:24 p.m. PGA Champion Jimmy Walker said he has felt fatigued since around…
June 3rd, Ottawa: We Need To Continue To Be VOCAL
We Need To Continue To Be VOCAL The Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Conference held in Ottawa in May…
MP Ramsey says local Lyme disease sufferers feel betrayed by federal response
Brian Cross, Windsor Star MP Tracey Ramsey implored Canada’s health minister to scrap the draft framework on Lyme disease on…
Ticks are carrying much more than just Lyme disease
“We’re finding pathogens that we didn’t know – well, we knew they were there, we just didn’t know how…