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[CanLyme note: This is another indication that the Canadian public wants to know more about why Lyme borreliosis is not being recognized by mainstream medicine when the evidence is clear, this is a global pandemic numbering in the millions of cases of chronic disability in the past decades.] The Eagle’s Top 3 viewed stories online for…
December 31, 2014 Belleville News By Diane Sherman Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, introduced Bill C-442, June 2012, to stimulate debate about prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and research on Lyme disease, a disease caused by insect bites, primarily ticks. December 16 the bill became law: An Act respecting a Federal…
Thursday, Dec 18, 2014 06:00 am By: Lindsay Seewalt Last May, the Eagle ran a story on the controversies surrounding Lyme disease and diagnosis and Chronic Lyme Disease (CLD) – the disease caused by infected ticks, largely spread by migratory birds, which is said to turn into CLD when overlooked and misdiagnosed. The story…
[CanLyme note: “Another month went by and a call was received from the ID specialist in Calgary. We were informed that our appointment was cancelled because as they stated, my wife doesn’t have Lyme.” Once again positive Lyme tests magically became false positive when Infectious Disease doctors became involved. Without seeing the patient they…
By Brion Robinson SACKVILLE, N.B. – A Mount Allison University professor says Lyme disease support groups could hold important information about improving treatment in Canada. Dr. Vett Lloyd has been tracking ticks infected with the disease for years and says many people who are infected are forced to seek help in the United States. That means…
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN, VANCOUVER SUN SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 In tickety-tock time Monday morning, a Lyme disease advocate was successful in crowdsourcing enough money to pay the Provincial Health Services Authority fee for documents requested through a Freedom of Information request. Half the $2,160 fee came from Dr. Liz Zubek, a former physician with the Complex Chronic…
By April Hudson, Spruce Grove Examiner/Stony Plain Reporter Friday, September 5, 2014 2:31:03 MDT PM Fibromyalgia. Chronic fatigue. Osteoporosis. Myo facial pain syndrome. Those are just a few of the diagnoses Taylor George has been handed over the past 13 years by doctors who don’t know what’s wrong with her. She lost some of her sight,…
BY SHEREEN LEHMAN Fri Aug 22, 2014 1:12pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Brazilian ticks that carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever passed the disease to animal hosts in as little as 10 minutes if they had recently fed on another animal, a new study found. “The current literature, including medical textbooks and guidelines for…
Originating in Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s, the disease has now made its way North. Quebec’s first cases emerged in 2008. Since then, it has continued to spread at an alarming rate. “We are predicting a rate of expansion of seven or eight kilometers per year northward in southern Quebec,” said Virginie Millien, a professor…
Informing Family Caregivers about Vector-Borne Illnesses such as Lyme borreliosis. CanLyme founder and president Jim Wilson and G.Magnotta Foundation for Vector Borne Diseases president and founder Rossana Magnotta speak on Lyme disease topics. Listen to full talk show
What you need to know to protect yourself BY FIONA BUCHANAN, EDMONTON JOURNAL JUNE 17, 2014 EDMONTON – They are so small you may not even see them, but they can cause very big problems. Ticks that sometimes carry Lyme disease are a growing concern in Canada, with the pinhead-sized insects inching north from the…
June 21st, 2014 Be on the lookout for ticks when at the Pinery this summer. Lambton Public Health found more than 30 of the biting bothers during a tick drag in the provincial park in mid-May and more than half were the blacklegged (deer) variety that can carry Lyme-disease causing bacteria. It’s the first time…
Lucky in Lyme by Lisa Robertson Posted June 18th, 2014 It has taken me a long time to finally find the courage to speak out regarding my Lyme journey. My husband’s new role as superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools is very public, and I really didn’t want to bring more attention to our family! However,…
Elizabeth May has achieved something of a miracle – the MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands and the leader of the federal Green party got a private-member’s bill through Parliament with unanimous approval. More important, the bill opens the door to better diagnosis and treatment of a serious disease that many say is a growing threat to…
Tick season in Manitoba: causes death In 2011, Michelle Millar and her partner Jim were bitten by ticks carrying Lyme disease and other illnesses. Jim later died. CBC’s Jill Coubrough reports. Michelle gives a great talk on how her life as she knew it was taken from her. Victim or Lyme, and victim of a…
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