Vermont passes bill into law that protects doctors who treat Lyme Disease appropriately without fear of persecution from their own licensing boards

[CanLyme note: Medical boards are very good at skirting these laws by going into a Lyme doctor’s practice on trumped-up... View Article

Lyme Neuroborreliosis and Dementia

Abstract Introduction: Descriptions of Lyme disease and dementia are rare. Objective: To describe patients with dementia and a... View Article

The Purple Paper – a publication of the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Canada.

[CanLyme note: The comments below are a review by our expert science reviewers in light of some of the content... View Article

Blacklegged Tick Population by Migratory Birds in Ontario, Canada

Researchers have discovered a new Lyme disease endemic area in Frontenac County that was likely started by spring migratory songbirds.... View Article

Nova Scotia – Health minister willing to work towards solution

NEW WATERFORD — Nova Scotia Health minister Leo Glavine said after hearing families are being forced to leave the province... View Article

The prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi infection, and co-infections with other Borrelia spp. in Ixodes scapularis ticks collected in Canada

Antonia Dibernardo, Tyler Cote, Nicholas H Ogden and L Robbin Lindsay Published: 15 April 2014 Abstract (provisional) Background Blacklegged ticks,... View Article

Diversity of piroplasms detected in blood-fed and questing ticks from several states in the United States.

Shock BC, Moncayo A, Cohen S, Mitchell EA, Williamson PC, Lopez G, Garrison LE, Yabsley MJ. online before print 2014... View Article

Scientists discover unnamed disease carried by deer ticks

[Canlyme note : The notion or suggestion that Borrelia miyamotoi is a new disease, is at this point in time proposterous.... View Article

National Post : Child arthritis cases spike as Lyme disease pushes further into Canada

[CanLyme note: A comment that was in the print version of the National Post newspaper has been edited out of the... View Article

LymeDisease.org Publishes Largest Study of Chronic Lyme Disease Ever Conducted; Patients Suffer Poor Quality of Life and High Rates of Disability and Unemployment

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 01, 2014 Chronic Lyme disease is associated with a poorer quality of life than most... View Article

[Canadian doctors gave up on him] India : Man revived from deep coma after 2 months

[How many more just are left to die in Canada? Not a great tourism advertisement for our country and it’s alleged... View Article

Only 18% of Lyme Disease patients studied in Nova Scotia had a rash… not the 60-80% stated by Canadian governments, AMMI, and in Canadian medical curricula

Lyme Arthritis: an Emerging Clinical Problem in Nova Scotia, Canada Pier D. Glaude1, Adam M. Huber1, Timothy Mailman2, Suzanne Ramsey2,... View Article

People, Pets, and Parasites: One Health Surveillance in Southeastern Saskatchewan

Abstract Residents of remote and Indigenous communities might experience higher exposure to some zoonotic parasites than the general North American... View Article

Detection of Borreliae in Archived Sera from Patients with Clinically Suspect Lyme Disease

Abstract: The diagnoses of Lyme disease based on clinical manifestations, serological findings and detection of infectious agents often contradict each... View Article

Tick-borne disease case numbers: What do they really mean?

By Doug Hartline, Health Director on March 5, 2014 When you see the statistic that Redding had only 10 Lyme... View Article

Parliament – Bill C-442 transcript and patient concerns over term “Best Practices”

March 4th, 2014, On March 3rd, 2014 in Canada’s House of Commons, Elizabeth May brought her private member’s Bill C-442,... View Article

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