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
Canada: A systematic review on the impact of gestational Lyme disease in humans on the fetus and newborn
[CanLyme Note: We at CanLyme want to thank Sue Faber and Jennifer Kravis for their excellent persistent hard work…
United States: Tick-Borne Disease Working Group 2018 Report to Congress
November 14th, 2018 “A comprehensive understanding of the full economic and societal cost remains unknown. It is likely orders of magnitude…
Mount Kisco Lyme disease doctor sues blogger for $1M citing libel
Nov 13th, 2018 A Mount Kisco physician who specializes in the treatment of Lyme disease is suing a blogger…
Canadian Frank Papineau sues physicians Dr. Pablo Romero-Sierra, Dr. Johnny Brisebois in Ontario Superior court. Trial to start November 26th, 2018
[UPDATE: This case has now been adjourned (postponed) by the courts for 3 years!! They allege they do not…
14 celebrities who have opened up about battling Lyme disease
November 10th, 2018 In recent years, the medical spotlight has increasingly been shining on Lyme disease, the bacterial tick-borne illness…
OPINION: Lyme disease tunnel vision plagues provincial authorities
Nov 3rd, 2018 Chronicle Herald newspaper Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada by Jane Bailey. Re: “Nova Scotia’s health system has…
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
CBC News: Canadian Member of Parliament Karen Ludwig – More national round tables planned for Lyme disease awareness
June 10th, 2016 A national, all-party round table on Lyme disease in Ottawa recently brought to light some of…
Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and Borrelia garinii DNAs in patient with Hyperkeratosis lenticularis perstans (Flegel disease)
Katarina Schwarzova, June 3, 2016 Atlas of Science Flegel disease (Hyperkeratosis lenticularis perstans – HLP) is a rare autosomal dermatosis,…
Singer and Movie Star Kris Kristofferson… was not Alzheimer’s disease, it was Lyme Disease
Kris Kristofferson says his memory loss was due to ticks, not dementia June 9th, 2016 by Carmen Chai, Global…
Wilke Cohen Lyme Disease Project Receives $3 Million from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation
The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) has received a transformational, multi-year pledge from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation…
‘Water on the knee’ could be early sign of Lyme disease
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS Nov, 2015 ROSEMONT, Ill.–Spontaneous knee effusion, also known as “water on the knee,” can…
Sunnybrook Health Sciences: Why Lyme disease can be so hard to diagnosis and treat
Written by Paul Taylor QUESTION: After feeling really miserable for many months, my doctor finally concluded I had…
Lyme disease sufferers looking for more help from Canadian medical system
Chris Thompson, Windsor Star Published on: May 27, 2016 Two years ago Francesca Ventimiglia was a healthy a vibrant…
Lyme disease gets attention of MP Karen Ludwig
New Brunswick Southwest MP surprised by the number of people suffering with Lyme disease By Vanessa Blanch, CBC News…
Parliamentarians convene bi-partisan panel to address Lyme disease
The illness could affect 10,000 Canadians by 2020. [per year] [CanLyme suggests we are possibly there already.] PUBLISHED…