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
Long time Lyme disease patient advocate warns Nova Scotians about ticks and medical practices
[CanLyme Note: Here we are in 2019 and doctors are still telling patients not to worry about a tick attachment.…
Metamorphoses of Lyme disease spirochetes: phenomenon of Borrelia persisters
Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:237 Natalie Rudenko; Maryna Golovchenko; Katerina Kybicova and Marie Vancova Published May 16, 2019 Abstract The survival of spirochetes from the Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu…
Where Lyme Disease Came From and Why It Eludes Treatment
[CanLyme Note: The title is a bit misleading. The bacteria that causes Lyme disease is millions of years old according…
Oshawa, ON: Lyme Disease: A silent epidemic
Posted on May 14, 2019 by oshawaexpress in IN THE SPOTLIGHT, THE FOURTH ESTATE By Chris Jones/The Oshawa Express With Lyme Disease Awareness Month now…
Media Advisory: Health officials to present information about blacklegged ticks and Lyme disease in Toronto
May 15, 2019 Health officials to present information about blacklegged ticks and Lyme disease in Toronto Toronto Public…
There’s no evidence quick dose of antibiotics will stave off Lyme
[CanLyme Note: Canadians have got to beware of information produced by any members of the Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network…
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
Lyme disease risk rising in Ontario as ticks spread farther in province
[CanLyme Note: Ticks are not only spreading aross southern Ontario, they are spreading in all regions of the province. If…
Ontario Lyme Researcher John Scott Receives Governor General Award
Scott was chosen to receive a Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers in recognition of 27 years of research and advocacy…
Lyme Medical & Educational Symposium – Toronto
Lyme Out Loud Kids Canada is organizing a one day symposium on April 21st, 2017 at St. Paul’s Anglican…
Lyme disease and pregnancy – US Center for Disease Control
Tell your physician (because they are told this cannot happen)… Lyme disease can be passed through the placenta to…
Swedish MD suspended over Lyme disease care; patients bereft
[CanLyme Note: Canada has suspended almost 100% of doctors who diagnose and treat Lyme disease based appropriately by all…
Doctors Who Treat Chronic and Rare Illnesses: Quacks or Heroes?
March 1, 2017 David Michael Conner The Huffington Post “Many readers of my writing know that I have spent…
Triathlete Kirsten Sweetland, sidelined by health, calls it a career
Cleve Dheensaw, Times Colonist, March 2nd Triathlete Kirsten Sweetland of Victoria, a former teen prodigy who overcame career-threatening injuries…
New Lyme disease petition urges action plan rewrite
Richmond Hill Liberal – Kim Zarzour, March 1st, 2017 A new petition asking the Canadian government for a better…
New York Times: More Than 80 Percent of Patient Groups Accept Drug Industry Funds, Study Shows
[CanLyme Note: We have been approached by various pharma industry to work with them but we have steadfastly refused in…