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New Lyme disease petition urges action plan rewrite
Richmond Hill Liberal – Kim Zarzour, March 1st, 2017 A new petition asking the Canadian government for a better action... View Article
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BC Centre for Disease Control warns about ticks infected with Lyme-related bacteria
Nov 7th, 2016 Vancouver – A warning from the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) suggests three ticks collected in... View Article
CBC radio show BC Almanac interviews doctors with opposing opinions on Lyme treatment, Lyme testing
May 25th, 2016 Interesting radio show with Dr. Liz Zubek, who treats based upon the patient’s symptoms, and Dr. William... View Article
Watch CTV news interview of Dr. Todd Hatchette. A very good example of how opinion, not science, is driving Lyme borreliosis policy in Canada… in spite of evidence presented by experts in Ottawa, May 15th to 17th, 2016.
[Lyme disease is actually Lyme borreliosis. an infection caused by many different strains/genotypes of Borrelia bacteria] How can one rationalize... View Article
Dr. Ted Cormode – Lyme disease from my perspective as a pediatrician and father of Lyme disease victim in Canada
Dr. Ted Cormode is a well respected retired pediatrician from Ontario who now resides in British Columbia. He relates his... View Article
Gulf Islands, BC, Canada: Peak tick season prompts warning
[CanLyme note: Reuben Kaufman, PhD, is a long time Board member of CanLyme] By Sean McIntyre on March 23, 2016 –... View Article
BC, Canada: Ticks active in the Southern Interior
WATCH: FULL STORY BY TANYA CRONIN The most common species here in the Southern Interior is the Wood Tick,... View Article
Okanagan Valley, BC, Canada: Ticks in area woods already – near Kelowna
[Canlyme Note: Where there is one tick that you see, there may be more that you miss. Be aggressive in searching.]... View Article
Ticks parasitizing gallinaceous birds in Canada and first record of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) from California Quail
Systematic & Applied Acarology 21(1): 1–12 (2016) http://doi.org/10.11158/saa.21.1.1 JOHN D. SCOTT, JOHN F. ANDERSON, LANCE A. DURDEN, MORGAN L. SMITH,... View Article
The US government and Infectious Disease Society of America admitted they cannot win the battle on Lyme with science.
Read this http://www.openeyepictures.com/references/McSweegan.pdf Dr. Morshed from the British Columbia Center for Disease Control, listed as a recipient on the emails seen... View Article
B.C. patient questions accuracy of Lyme disease test used by province
Mark Hume VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail – Published Tuesday, Jul. 21, 2015 Internal government documents show blood tests used to... View Article
Internal government documents raise concerns over accuracy of B.C. Lyme disease tests
July 20, 2015 Lyme disease patients denied treatment based on faulty tests Vancouver, BC ~ Confidential documents, obtained through a... View Article
Victoria, BC: 19 year old Victoria teen has fought Lyme Disease for 6 years
[CanLyme note: Yet another case with eerily similar symptoms and circumstances to the others reported over the past few years.... View Article
Squamish, BC: Local woman tells nightmare of Lyme disease
Awareness evening to be held in Squamish next week Kerri Currier / Squamish Chief / June 4, 2015 Squamish is... View Article
Infection Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ticks Collected from Songbirds in Far-Western Canada
Authors: John D. Scott, Lance A. Durden, John F. Anderson AbstractWorldwide, wild birds play a vital role in the dispersal... View Article