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
Maladie de Lyme: un expert français défend la thèse de la «forme chronique»
March 22, 2018 Philippe Mercure La Presse Du Québec aux États-Unis en passant par la France, des malades affirment…
Australia: Hope for Lyme sufferers with ‘groundbreaking’ pilot study
[CanLyme Note: Once again, it is the patients, true ethical scientists, and clinicians doing what the governments have refused…
Prominent New York-based board-certified neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist calls Lyme disease a human rights concern.
Mar 22, 2018 Dr. Frid is a New York-based board-certified neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist who specializes in infection-induced autoimmune…
Maladie de Lyme: un expert français défend la thèse de la «forme chronique»
March 22, 2018 Philippe Mercure La Presse Du Québec aux États-Unis en passant par la France, des malades affirment…
Detecting the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia Burgdorferi, in Ticks Using Nested PCR
Melanie K. B. Wills, Andrea M. Kirby, Vett K. Lloyd Department of Biology, Mount Allison University J. Vis. Exp. (132), e56471,…
Combining public participatory surveillance and occupancy modelling to predict the distributional response of Ixodes scapularis to climate change
Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2018, Pages 695-706 David J Lieske, Vett K. Lloyd https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.01.018 Abstract Ixodes scapularis, a known vector of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu…
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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More news
Fox News: Richard Gere Among Celebrities Who Have Battled Lyme Disease
[CanLyme note: They forgot Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates, and others including professional golfers and baseball players.] Lyme…
Persister Development by B. burgdorferi Populations In Vitro
[CanLyme note: The researchers acknowledge in their paper that their findings are limited to doxycycline, alone, at their prescribed dosages.…
Globe and Mail: How ticks became a major public health issue
[CanLyme Note: The tell-tale “bull’s eye” rash seldom occurs. Of those 17 children in Nova Scotia with confirmed Lyme Disease,…
Diagnosing Lyme Neuroborreliosis in Horses is Difficult
By Courtesy University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Aug 5, 2015 Most horses in the Mid-Atlantic region show…
Lyme disease: Knowledge and practices of family practitioners in southern Quebec
[CanLyme note: We invite your review of the below article (free PDF of study can be accessed in the…
Chatelaine Magazine: Lyme disease is on the rise – should you be worried?
July 29th, 2015 More than 600 cases of Lyme disease were reported in Canada in 2013 – a number…
USA CDC : Vaccines for Lyme Disease – Past, Present, and Future
[CanLyme note: The argument to market a vaccine anytime soon is weak. Until many eyes have had a chance…
VIDEO – CBC Friends raise money to help treat woman with Lyme disease
Friends of Carolyn MacIntyre, a Perth-area woman with Lyme disease, are raising money to pay for her ongoing care…
Unravelling the mystery of Lyme disease: Why Canada needs to do more
Rian Michelsen is a rising star. Fifteen years ago, he was the toddler who burst out from behind the…