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
Does single dose prophylaxis promoted by Canadian medical authorities work? The answer is no.
A two pill (single dose) prophylactic administration of doxycycline is being offered to Canadians who have a known tick…
Professional Self-Regulation and the Public Interest in Canada
[CanLyme Note: The Lyme disease disaster for Canadians is an excellent example of how the ‘self-regulating’ medical colleges and…
Do Microbes Trigger Alzheimer’s Disease?
[CanLyme Note: Judith Miklossy, PhD, was a founding Board member of CanLyme in 2003 and remained until she moved…
“She looked like a stroke victim”
[CanLyme Note: How is it that physicians are so under-educated and misinformed on this disease after it being here for…
Congress Acts to Improve CDC and NIH Lyme Disease Programs [Canada Fails]
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 [CanLyme Note: The Canadian system via the Pubic Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the…
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…
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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Forbes: Lyme Deaths From Heart Inflammation Likely Worse Than We Thought
September 4th, 2015 Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections are skyrocketing. In western Pennsylvania, where I work, Lyme increased…
Tertiary Treponematosis – Lyme Disease, Syphilis, gum disease
Herbert B. Allen*, Maria Hannaway and Suresh Joshi Journal of Clinical & Experimental Dermatology Research Abstract With recent findings…
Global TV – Lyme disease tests may not be accurate for some Canadians – Patients worried
[CanLyme Note: The Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada (AMMI) failed to point out that there is no…
Toronto: Drawings depict horrors of Lyme disease, artist calls for better testing and treatment
written by Bruce Wark Montreal artist Donna Jacobs is hoping her charcoal drawings soon to be on display…
Ticks are killed in clothes dryer in only 5 minutes new research suggests
Braintree HS graduate continues groundbreaking ticks research By Robert Aicardi baicardi [at] wickedlocal [dot] com Posted Aug. 31,…
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…