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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
A Boy Heard a Buzzing Sound in His Ear. It Was a Tick on His Eardrum.
By Rachael Rettner, May 2nd, 2019 A 9-year-old boy who heard a buzzing sound in his ear turned out…
When Lyme Disease Doesn’t Go Away
[CanLyme Note: The term “post-treatment” is misleading because it implies effective treatment was given when in fact it was…
Ontario, Canada: ‘I thought I was going to die’: 3 Dufferin County residents battling Lyme disease hope to help others avoid similar fate
Apr 29, 2019 – by Alexandra Heck Orangeville Banner “For three and a half years, Costigan suffered from about…
Microbiome analysis of Ixodes scapularis ticks from New York and Connecticut.
Ahead of print abstract…April 15, 2019 Abstract We employed high throughput sequencing to survey the microbiomes of Ixodes scapularis…
Three-antibiotic cocktail clears ‘persister’ Lyme bacteria in mouse study
April 23rd, 2019 A new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that…
Tick-borne pathogen detection in midgut and salivary glands of adult Ixodes ricinus
Lejal et al. Parasites Vectors (2019) 12:152 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3418-7 Abstract Background: The tick midgut and salivary glands represent the primary…
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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VOCAL – Voices Of Canadians Against Lyme – Teens, Listen to a song created to bring attention to the dire situation of Lyme in Canada
LISTEN TO SONG BELOW: Children in Canada are suffering from Chronic Lyme Disease, please help them out and sign…
Identification of Novel Zoonotic Activity of Bartonella spp
Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Mar;22(3):457-62. doi: 10.3201/eid2203.150269 Abstract Certain Bartonella species are known to cause afebrile bacteremia in humans…
Comparison of bacterial 16S rRNA variable regions for microbiomesurveys of ticks
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2017.02.002 Abstract Ticks vector diverse pathogenic bacteria that are important to identify in public health and veterinary contexts.…
DON’T COUNT ON A RELAPSING FEVER TO DIAGNOSE BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI
You might assume a patient infected with Borrelia miyamotoi, a relapsing fever spirochete, to present with a relapsing fever.…
Tick-borne Lyme disease exploding into Michigan; human cases up 5-fold
Feb. 23, 2017 Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press They’re already back. All it took was an unusual February warm…
Anti-science old guard taking last dying breaths of continuing to misinform physicians using tax payer dollars
Here is their opinion article title, amazing in 2017 how poorly they reference their evidence… “False and Misleading Information…
Lyme sufferers devastated by federal government’s action plan
Richmond Hill Liberal, February 22, 2017 When Shari Allen first went public with her battle with Lyme disease, she was…
Detection of Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, in Blacklegged Ticks Collected in the Grand River Valley, Ontario, Canada
Scott et al. Received: 2016.09.29; Accepted: 2016.12.28; Published: 2017.02.08 Abstract We document the presence of blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis,…
Global Network on Institutional Discrimination: Lyme disease patients denied care and insurance coverage because of missing diagnostic codes
News provided by Global Network on Institutional Discrimination Feb 08, 2017, 10:04 ET VERO BEACH, Fla., Feb. 8, 2017…