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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
CTV’s Avis Favaro “Mothers on a mission to prove Lyme disease can be passed to unborn child”
“These mothers and their kids struggled for years with severe dizziness, pain, digestive problems, infections and impaired motor function…
Lyme Encephalopathy: Impact on Quality of Life
B.L. Goldklang (1), S.S. Festa (1), and J.S. Hason (1,2). Lyme Disease Coalition of New York and Connecticut, Katonah,…
Establishment of a continuous in vitro culture of Babesia duncani in human erythrocytes reveals unusually high tolerance to recommended therapies. [ie Mepron not too effective?]
November 21st, 2018 Abstract Human babesiosis is an emerging tick-borne disease caused by apicomplexan parasites of the genus Babesia. Clinical…
Evaluating polymicrobial immune responses in patients suffering from tick-borne diseases
October 29 2018, Garga K et al There is insufficient evidence to support screening of various tick-borne diseases (TBD)…
Canadian government asked by international Health Equity committee to reverse secretive, harmful, and unethical interference that will affect mothers and children worldwide.
December 22, 2018 Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Honorable Minister Ginette Petitpas-Taylor, Honorable Minister Jody Wilson-Rebould, Dr. Mithani, Dr. Tam,…
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
Exotic ticks appear to be establishing themselves in Alaska
Alaska Dispatch News Monday, August 29th, 2016 While Alaskans have long endured dense mosquitoes and frigid air, we’ve always had…
Chasser la tique avec des draps de flanelle
[un message canlyme: La maladie de Lyme est à travers le Québec. Il est partout où les merles volent. Robins…
Chasser la tique avec des draps de flanelle
[un message canlyme: La maladie de Lyme est à travers le Québec. Il est partout où les merles volent. Robins…
Lyme Patients Challenge CDC, Reports the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 25, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — While Zika is grabbing headlines as an emerging disease, another arthropod-borne…
Black-legged ticks found at Riding Mountain National Park
[CanLyme Note: “Officials aren’t ready yet to sound the alarms”… here we are in 2016 and Health Canada still refuses…
Tick study gets ‘astonishing’ local response
John Ferro, Poughkeepsie Journal Photo by Sophia Raithel When the scientists behind an ambitious tick studybegan their work in April,…
Study cites Powassan link to long-term Lyme symptoms
August 14th, 2016 By Cynthia McCormick Scientists at a Wisconsin laboratory say they suspect persistent cases of Lyme disease…
How Lyme disease almost ended one doctor’s life
Aug 15th, Fox News : Dr. Neil Spector’s Lyme story on “Fox and Friends”
Massachusetts, USA: Insurance Coverage for Lyme Treatment Becomes Law
Alex Elvin, August 11, 2016 6:40 pm The state legislature has adopted a new bill requiring insurance companies to…