Ottawa nurse must go to U.S. to seek Lyme disease treatment

Like most Lyme disease patients in Canada, Dawn Lavarnway doesn’t remember when she was bitten by the tick that gave... View Article

Sister of first victim speaks out about rare disease’s Canadian connection

Randy Boswell Published: October 20, 2013, 3:05 pm It’s a rare but life-threatening infection spread to humans by tiny... View Article

Researcher John Scott responds to The Nature of Things CBC TV episode on Lyme disease

xxxxxxxxxx xxxxx, Ontario Sue Dando Executive Producer Science and Natural History Unit CBC-TV Documentary Canadian Broadcasting Corporation P.O. Box 500,... View Article

Chromosome Sequence of Borrelia miyamotoi, an Uncultivable Tick-Borne Agent of Human Infection.

Hue F, Ghalyanchi Langeroudi A, Barbour AG.Genome Announcements. 2013 Sep 12;1(5). pii: e00713-13. http://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00713-13 Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is a newly... View Article

Lyme Disease: Spreading across Canada – The Nature of Things with David Suzuki

“It’s official. A March 2012 study confirmed that the tick that spreads lyme disease has been infiltrating Canada for the... View Article

Sudbury, Ontario, Canada: Tick tests positive in Sudbury for Lyme disease bacteria

The Sudbury & District Health Unit is urging people to take precautions to prevent against tick bites after a blacklegged... View Article

Huffington Post: The Global Search for Education: Canada – Ticks

Lyme borreliosis, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Bartonella, tularemia, and more recently, Borrelia miyamotoi (a distant relative of... View Article

Global TV News – Ticks carrying Lyme on the rise

Fri, Jul 26: Black-legged ticks are crawling into parts of Ontario. Marianne Dimain reports Watch Global News story

Canadian lawyer Paul Haefling speaks on Lyme disease

Testing in Canada is not good, the government of Ontario is well aware of that fact yet they imposed the... View Article

Lyme Disease Think Tank, British Columbia’s Women’s Hospital Complex Chronic Disease Program, Vancouver, BC Canada

On April 13th, 2013, a one day Think Tank was held for the medical professionals at the BC Women’s Hospital... View Article

Winery owner building research centre for Lyme Disease

ByJoanna Frketich The founder of an Ontario winery with area connections is working to create a research facility for Lyme... View Article

Lyme disease victim sends open youtube video-letter to Canadian Parliamentarians

David Leggett tells his story and pleads with the Canadian government to step up to the plate, support Bill C-442,... View Article

First positive tick on a human for Lyme disease in Windsor-Essex area

The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is warning the public after the first tick collected from a human this year has... View Article

Multiple events across Canada for May Lyme Awareness Month

May is Lyme disease awareness month, here is a list of the balance of May awareness events across Canada. For... View Article

Investigation of Genotypes of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis Ticks Collected during Surveillance in Canada

Ogden, et al Abstract The genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, the agent of Lyme disease in North America,... View Article

Evolving Perspectives on Lyme Borreliosis in Canada

J.L.H. Sperling1,2, M.J. Middelveen2, D. Klein3, and F.A.H. Sperling*,1 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2Canadian Lyme... View Article

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