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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
To Hell and Back: denial of access to health care in Canada. Another disgraceful failure of the Public Health Agency of Canada, now a Human Rights issue
June 19th, 2018 This is another example of the disgraceful anti-science, anti-collaborative management of health care in Canada. Federal and…
INFORMED CONSENT – a patient’s right… a physician’s requirement to become informed BEFORE informing the patient.
This is related to all medical practice not just Lyme borreliosis. We have inserted our comments. “Patients have…
Corruption and Human Rights Violations Against Lyme Doctors, Scientists and Parents Now on United Nations Record
The 2018 Report ‘The Situation of the Human Rights Defenders of Lyme and Relapsing Fever Borreliosis Patients’ was submitted…
Province of Nova Scotia publicly makes false claims regarding Lyme disease.
June 3, 2018 Chronicle Herald – Public health failing to address Lyme disease crisis, says author From the article titled…
Lyme disease in Saskatchewan ticks, and dog ticks can infect Borrelia miyamotoi.
The vast majority of ticks found in Saskatchewan are Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick), a species not known to…
A heart specialist in Kingston, Ont. is warning health care professionals across the country to be on the lookout for a rare but serious complication of Lyme disease
May 30th, 2018 A heart specialist in Kingston, Ont. is warning health care professionals across the country to be…
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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A Borrelia burgdorferi surface-exposed transmembrane protein lacking detectable immune responses supports pathogen persistence and constitutes a vaccine target.
Kung F, Kaur S, Smith AA, Yang X, Wilder CN, Sharma K, Buyuktanir O, Pal U. The Journal of…
USA: Air Force med group finds rare animal bacteria in soldier [borreliosis, Borrelia turicatae]
January 18th, 2016 published in Air Force Times “The bacteria, Borrelia turicatae – which has been known to display side…
Ticks that Transmit Lyme Disease Reported in 48.6% of U.S. Counties
[CanLyme note: A good take home message from this article linked below is that for government to focus heavily…
The Need for Clinical Judgment in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease
Abstract Clinical practice guidelines are increasing in number. Unfortunately, when scientific evidence is uncertain, limited, or evolving, as is…
Ticks parasitizing gallinaceous birds in Canada and first record of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) from California Quail
Systematic & Applied Acarology 21(1): 1–12 (2016) https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.21.1.1 JOHN D. SCOTT, JOHN F. ANDERSON, LANCE A. DURDEN, MORGAN L.…
Isolation of live Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato spirochetes from patients with undefined disorders and symptoms not typical for Lyme borreliosis.
Rudenko, N, et al Clin Microbiol Infect. 2015 Dec 7. pii: S1198-743X(15)00991-X. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.11.009. Abstract Lyme borreliosis is a multisystem…
Partially fed ticks who then re-attach to a new host can transmit Lyme disease within 24 hours 83% of the time according to study.
Int J Gen Med. 2015; 8: 1–8. Published online 2014 Dec 19. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S73791 PMCID: PMC4278789 Lyme borreliosis: a…
United States : CDC Refuses to End Preferential Treatment of IDSA Lyme Guidelines in Response to Citizen Petition Patient advocates cite CDC/IDSA conflicts of interest
“Fries says, “It’s unacceptable that when a federal government agency is presented with evidence of improprieties, the official response…
Distribution and survival of Borrelia miyamotoi in human blood components
Aaron M. Thorp and Laura Tonnetti Article first published online: 21 DEC 2015 DOI: 10.1111/trf.13398 BACKGROUND Borrelia miyamotoi, the agent…