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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
Tick-borne disease is multiple microbial in nature
Nov. 1, 2018 A study recently published in Scientific Reports discovered that 65% of Lyme disease patients irrespective of…
Mount Allison University’s Lyme Research Network presents their 2017 – 2018 report on research funded by the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation
Another successful year building capacity and knowledge within the Canadian science community. These funded students will be our near-future…
Les groupes de patients canadiens atteints de la maladie de Lyme se sont unis pour rejeter le concept du gouvernement fédéral fondé sur un réseau unique de recherche.
Publié le 25 octobre 2018 par Canlyme [Note de CanLyme: Il existe déjà un autre réseau de recherche pancanadien en…
Les groupes de patients canadiens atteints de la maladie de Lyme se sont unis pour rejeter le concept du gouvernement fédéral fondé sur un réseau unique de recherche.
Publié le 25 octobre 2018 par Canlyme [Note de CanLyme: Il existe déjà un autre réseau de recherche pancanadien en…
Canadian Lyme disease patient groups united in rejecting the ‘one research network only’ concept of the federal government
[CanLyme Note: There is already another pan-Canadian research network that has been up and running for over a year, the…
CBC: U.S. lab says this 7-year-old has Lyme disease – Canadian MDs won’t even test him
Trent Nimeth suffers as his parents try to get diagnosis from U.S. validated in Canada At only 18-months-old, Trent…
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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Watch CTV news interview of Dr. Todd Hatchette. A very good example of how opinion, not science, is driving Lyme borreliosis policy in Canada… in spite of evidence presented by experts in Ottawa, May 15th to 17th, 2016.
[Lyme disease is actually Lyme borreliosis. an infection caused by many different strains/genotypes of Borrelia bacteria] How can one…
USA CDC won’t do ‘on-camera interview’ on Lyme: It is Lyme Disease Awareness Month after all
May 23, 2016, Outbreak News Today [More government arrogance using their tax payer funded salaries to ignore tax payers.]…
Global TV, Winnipeg, Canada: Winnipeggers cautioned to watch out for ticks [Lyme on increase]
May 24th, 2016 WINNIPEG – A Winnipeg mom is warning people to be on the lookout for black legged ticks…
What has the USA, ‘lead in the water’ crisis got to do with Lyme disease?
American Scientist, May-June, 2016 Katie L. Burke “ To make matters worse, the Flint water crisis is a repeat…
NEW TESTING FOR LYME DISEASE
May 23, 2016 A new urine test that could detect Lyme disease has been completed. 40% of Lyme disease…
CBC News Montreal: Reported cases of Lyme disease on the rise in Montreal
May 19th, 2016 Arlene Rill knows all about the dangers of Lyme disease. The 65-year-old resident of Hampstead, Que.,…
CBC News Ottawa: Jim Wilson, CanLyme president, wants patients as equal partners on Lyme Borreliosis policy.
May 16th, 2016 As a result of Elizabeth May’s private member’s Bill 442 that passed unanimously through both the…
CBC, The National: Alarming rise in Lyme disease cases
A five-fold increase in Lyme disease cases since 2009 concerns Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Gregory Taylor sounds…
Medical community failing Lyme patients, Calgary doctor says
Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizien, May 16th, 2016 Canada’s medical establishment came under pressure at a national conference into Lyme…