How to Remove a Tick
If a tick is removed within 24 hours, the chances of it transmitting Lyme disease or other infections are less.
Not all tick removal methods are safe. Certain removal methods may increase your chances of contracting Lyme disease.
Safe Tick RemovalCAYLA DENGATE, MANLY DAILY, NOVEMBER 01, 2014 12:01AM While ticks are usually best avoided, Pittwater Council is extending a request from Sydney... View Article
[ CanLyme note: This report underlines what patients and their concerned physicians have known for years and have tried to report.... View Article
Robert Mangelsdorf — Westender October 29, 2014 It started as an odd twitch in her bicep, then a tingling numbness in... View Article
Abstract Background Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, and is caused by infection... View Article
Intracellular Borrelia Spirochaetes Reproduce Inside Erythrocytes The experiment adds to previous work showing borrelia spirochaete invasion of erythrocytes(1). It... View Article
By Brion Robinson SACKVILLE, N.B. – A Mount Allison University professor says Lyme disease support groups could hold important information about... View Article
Abstract: The geographic distributions of Ixodes scapularis (black-legged tick) and the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (the causative agent of Lyme disease)... View Article
Hastey CJ, Ochoa J, Olsen KJ, Barthold SW, Baumgarth N. Abstract Rapidly after infection, live Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent... View Article
ABSTRACT Scant attention has been paid to Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, Ixodes scapularis, or reservoirs in eastern North Dakota... View Article
Yancey Caroline B., Hegarty Barbara C., Qurollo Barbara A., Levy Michael G., Birkenheuer Adam J., Weber David J., Diniz Pedro... View Article
Giovanni Matera, et al NEW MICROBIOLOGICA, 37, 393-397, 2014 Late/chronic Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) represents a challenging entity whose diagnosis requires... View Article
[CanLyme note: What patients are suffering from is a borreliosis. They do not care if science has found a way to... View Article
The Lyme Sucks Challenge: 1. Cut a lime in half (share it with a friend, or your favorite kid)... View Article
[CanLyme note: Lyme disease is a borreliosis, caused by many strains/species of Borrelia. Relapsing fever is simply strain related Lyme... View Article
Near Kingston, ON- For the first time Kingston, Frontenac and Lennon & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health Region is taking matters into... View Article
Lyme disease is bad enough. But it’s just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases ticks transmit,... View Article
