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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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Recent dispatches
First European Crypto-Infections Conference
Europe hosts their first Crypto-Infections Conference as an important first step in bringing attention to these infections that are…
OPINION: Lyme science isn’t settled
Patients forging path of 1980s AIDS activists. They should be heard. MARY BETH PFEIFFER Published March 29, 2019 in…
Health P.E.I. tragically mistaken [on Lyme disease]
The Guardian, Chris Robinson Guest Opinion Government bafflegab bothers me, especially when the health of young school-age children is…
Presence of Babesia odocoilei and Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto in a Tick and Dual Parasitism of Amblyomma inornatum and Ixodes scapularis on a Bird in Canada
John D. Scott, Kerry L. Clark and Lance A. Durden published 20 March 2019 Abstract: Wild birds transport ticks…
Lyme disease study raises possibility of mother-to-baby transmission
Andrew Rankin (arankin [at] herald [dot] ca) May 15th, 2019 A scientist who co-authored a recent Public Health Agency of…
This success story cannot happen in Canada without doctors licences being at risk from our very conflict of interest laden health care system that crosses federally to the provinces, then remarkably closely to the United States private organization the Infectious Disease Society of America that is rife with anti-science rhetoric and conflict of interest. Has Canada been the victim of medical fraud? Perhaps.
A family’s fight for their son en route to NCAA tournament history … “Instead of running to the…
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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Portland, Maine: Despite drought, Lyme disease cases came roaring back this fall
[CanLyme Note: Due to the proximity to the Canadian border and the role of our friendly migratory birds in…
Commercial test kits for detection of Lyme borreliosis: a meta-analysis of test accuracy
November 2016 Abstract: The clinical diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis can be supported by various test methodologies; test kits are…
Bill to combat Lyme disease heads to Pres. Obama for signature
December 7th, 2016 WASHINGTON (NEWS10) – The U.S. Senate passed legislation to combat Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. The…
Ceftriaxone Pulse Dosing Fails to Eradicate Biofilm-Like Microcolony B. burgdorferi Persisters Which Are Sterilized by Daptomycin/ Doxycycline/Cefuroxime without Pulse Dosing
Published Nov 2016 Abstract Although the majority of Lyme disease patients can be cured, at least 10–20% of…
Australia: A Senate inquiry has recommended urgent government funding for research into tick-borne disease in Australia.
Nov. 30th, 2016 Inquiry calls for Lyme funding, research A Senate committee has recommended the federal government urgently…
BC Centre for Disease Control warns about ticks infected with Lyme-related bacteria
Nov 7th, 2016 Vancouver – A warning from the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) suggests three ticks collected…
‘Jedi’s’ run for Lyme disease was surprisingly a lesson of love
Nov. 13th, 2016, By Catherine Thompson, Waterloo Region Record WATERLOO – His grandkids call him Jedi. As in the…
Johns Hopkins receives $10M to expand research into Lyme disease cause, treatments
Grants from Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation support existing research on post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, new therapies, vulnerable populations…
Ceftriaxone Pulse Dosing Fails to Eradicate Biofilm-Like Microcolony B. burgdorferi Persisters Which Are Sterilized by Daptomycin/ Doxycycline/Cefuroxime without Pulse Dosing
Front. Microbiol., 04 November 2016 | https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01744 Abstract Although the majority of Lyme disease patients can be cured, at…