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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
History of Morgellons disease: from delusion to definition
Middelveen, et al https://doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S152343 Abstract: Morgellons disease (MD) is a skin condition characterized by the presence of multicolored filaments that…
Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease
M. Middelveen, et al. PREPRINT Abstract Introduction: Lyme disease is a tickborne illness that generates controversy among medical providers and…
CanLyme has questioned the self-policing of physicians for years as it protects bad nonsense – NOW CHANGE MAY HAPPEN? Are our politicians listening?
[CanLyme Note: This is not isolated to Ontario, it is Canada and world-wide. Many provinces and countries have given…
Canadian Lyme Consortium, made up of researchers, patients and clinicians is looking for volunteers.
As you may have heard, there is an exciting new national Canadian research network called the Canadian Lyme Consortium…
Séances parlementaires sur la maladie de Lyme au Québec (22 mars 2018)
PAR MARGUERITE Samedi 24 Mars 2018 Revue des séances parlementaires sur la maladie de Lyme au Québec le jeudi…
Séances parlementaires sur la maladie de Lyme au Québec (22 mars 2018)
PAR MARGUERITE Samedi 24 Mars 2018 Revue des séances parlementaires sur la maladie de Lyme au Québec le jeudi…
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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Disease Risk & Landscape Attributes of Tick-Borne Borrelia Pathogens in the San Francisco Bay Area, California
Published: August 19, 2015 – DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134812 Abstract Habitat heterogeneity influences pathogen ecology by affecting vector abundance and the…
Nature.com : Scientists have no shortage of ideas about how to stop tick-borne illnesses. What is holding them back?
Aug. 25th, 2015 Melinda Wenner Moyer The growing global battle against blood-sucking ticks On a balmy day in…
More infected ticks found in Sudbury area
By Jim Moodie, The Sudbury Star, August 26th, 2015 The city is experiencing a minor rash of Lyme-carrying ticks, any…
Return on Investment Slipping in Biomedical Research
[CanLyme note: Medical research should be of the highest standard of all research, but in many cases the opposite is…
Winnipegger traveled to New York for Lyme disease treatment
Meghan Roberts, CTV Winnipeg Published Sunday, August 23, 2015 9:23PM CST A Winnipeg man says he travelled to New…
The Scientist: The Search for Persisters
It starts with a tick bite. This may be followed by the characteristic bullseye rash. And then the other…
Schizophrenia Differential Diagnoses
Diagnostic Considerations – Other psychiatric illnesses – Anatomic lesions – Metabolic illnesses – Endocrine disordersInfectious illnesses – Miscellaneous disorders…
Undiagnosed Lyme disease in adults with schizophrenia.
Published online Aug. 6th, 2015 ABSTRACT Lyme disease (LD) is the world’s leading tick borne infection caused by the…
Entomological Society of America Issues Statement on Tick-borne Diseases
[CanLyme note: CanLyme has no evidence to support the insinuation of the Entomological Society of America in the last sentence…