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

Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease

ByCanLymeApr 6, 20182 min read

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?

ByCanLymeApr 5, 20182 min read

[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.

ByCanLymeApr 1, 20184 min read

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)

ByCanLymeMar 28, 20181 min read

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)

ByCanLymeMar 28, 20181 min read

PAR MARGUERITE Samedi 24 Mars 2018 Revue des séances parlementaires sur la maladie de Lyme au Québec le jeudi…

Maladie de Lyme: un expert français défend la thèse de la «forme chronique»

ByCanLymeMar 23, 20181 min read

March 22, 2018 Philippe Mercure La Presse Du Québec aux États-Unis en passant par la France, des malades affirment…

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

Winnipegger traveled to New York for Lyme disease treatment

ByCanLyme TeamAug 24, 20151 min read

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

ByCanLyme TeamAug 12, 20152 min read

It starts with a tick bite. This may be followed by the characteristic bullseye rash. And then the other…

Schizophrenia Differential Diagnoses

ByCanLyme TeamAug 12, 20151 min read

Diagnostic Considerations – Other psychiatric illnesses – Anatomic lesions – Metabolic illnesses – Endocrine disordersInfectious illnesses – Miscellaneous disorders…

Undiagnosed Lyme disease in adults with schizophrenia.

ByCanLyme TeamAug 12, 20151 min read

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

ByCanLyme TeamAug 11, 20151 min read

[CanLyme note: CanLyme has no evidence to support the insinuation of the Entomological Society of America in the last sentence…

Fox News: Richard Gere Among Celebrities Who Have Battled Lyme Disease

ByCanLyme TeamAug 10, 20151 min read

[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

ByCanLyme TeamAug 10, 20152 min read

[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

ByCanLyme TeamAug 10, 20151 min read

[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

ByCanLyme TeamAug 5, 20151 min read

By Courtesy University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Aug 5, 2015 Most horses in the Mid-Atlantic region show…