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.
Learn more about Lyme
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
Twins Ice Cream Parlour in lovely Port Rowan, Ontario, for years has been very active in raising awareness and funds for Lyme disease.
On the north shores of Lake Erie sits the idyllic community of Port Rowan, Ontario. It is a beautiful…
Lyme disease can be transmitted from tick in 12 hours new research shows.
[CanLyme Note: Will the Canadian government labs and physicians now stop telling everyone they cannot have Lyme because the tick…
TVA Nouvelles: Le Collège des médecins se défend d’abandonner les malades
TVA Nouvelles | Publié le 21 septembre 2018 Beaucoup de réactions à la suite de notre émission «J.E.» sur les ravages…
From TVA Nouvelles, September 21, 2018 Many reactions to our show “J.E.” on the ravages of Lyme disease. The…
TVA Nouvelles: Le Collège des médecins se défend d’abandonner les malades
TVA Nouvelles | Publié le 21 septembre 2018 Beaucoup de réactions à la suite de notre émission «J.E.» sur les ravages…
Avril Lavigne has released a new single inspired by her battle with Lyme borreliosis.
Good Morning America – September 20th, 2018 Avril Lavigne has released a new single: an emotionally raw piano ballad…
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.
Learn to protect yourself
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More news
CBC News, Canada: Lyme disease response requires collaboration in Canada, researcher says
By Laurie Fagan, April 22, 2016 A Queen’s university researcher says Canadian Lyme disease experts need to work more…
CTV News Toronto, Canada: Within four years 80% of population will be living with Lyme disease carrying ticks
April 22, 2016 CTV reporter Pauline Chan warns the public to beware as tick season is upon us. She…
Hamilton-Wentworth area of Ontario found to have 41% of blacklegged ticks infected with Lyme disease causing bacteria
Prevalence of the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, in Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis at Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario John D. Scott,…
New Lyme Disease Study Reveals Strong Reporting Bias
David Michael Conner Huffington Post On March 31, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study that concludes, “In…
Physicians and patients weigh in on latest poorly designed study that raises the question, “Why?”, and, “Who is driving this spin?”
Randomized Trial of Longer-Term Therapy for Symptoms Attributed to Lyme Disease Comment “Persister research needs to account for morphological…
Chronic Lyme European PLEASE Trial–You know it’s spin when treatment “success” is called “failure”?
March 30th, 2016 Today a widely anticipated clinical trial on chronic Lyme disease from Europe called PLEASE was published…
Boston, Massachusetts: Response to Boston Globe editorial against the Lyme bill
March 29th, 2016 The Massachusetts Lyme Legislative Task Force responds to a recent editorial from the Boston Globe, which opposed legislation to require…
Edmonton, Alberta: You’ll be seeing more ticks this spring
March 28th, 2016 CTV Alberta Primetime Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation director and PhD candidate Janet Sperling is interviewed by…
Researchers investigate four promising new treatments for Lyme disease
March 29, 2016 Thea Singer … “I find it amazing that when you show up at the doctor’s office you…