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Tick’d Off – Alberta Primetime TV interview – Lyme disease in Alberta not so new

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Tick’d Off Original Air Date: Friday, May 31, 2013 Alberta’s tick surveillance program is gathering data on just how many  ticks we’ve got in Alberta and how many of them are carrying lyme  disease.We talk to Susan McInnis, from the Lyme Disease Association of Alberta and Marianne Middelveen, from the International Lyme and Associated Diseases…

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1993, Calgary Herald newspaper … Lyme disease victims tell their story

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Lyme disease is not new to Canada, it has been around for centuries.  The finding that the Iceman, a 5000 yr old well preserved mummy found in the ice of the Alps, had Lyme disease tells us the Lyme bacteria has been around for millenia.  Just don’t tell that to your typical Infectious Disease doctors who…