Thunder Bay, Ontario: CBC- Victoria Day 2015: The unofficial start to tick season

The long holiday weekend marks the beginning of camping season across Ontario. But it also signals the start of tick... View Article

Grandpa runs for Lyme disease – for his grandson

Watch touching video of a Grandpa who started running for Lyme on January 2nd, 2015 and has logged over 1000... View Article

RHOBH star Yolanda Foster uses Stem Cells to fight Lyme disease

By LAUREL BROWN FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 22:53 GMT, 7 May 2015 | UPDATED: 22:59 GMT, 7 May 2015 For close... View Article

Future looks brighter for Lyme disease care

May 3rd, 2015 Poughkeepsie Journal The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised their estimates for the number of Lyme... View Article

Hopkins Physician Says Lyme Disease Patients Create Conspiracy Theories About Their Illnesses

Hopkins physician Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, has told the Allentown Morning Call that Lyme patients invent ideas about what ails... View Article

Lyme Sucks Challenge continues: CanLyme founder’s brother and daughter make their challenges.

On April 24th, 2015, the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation’s founder, Jim Wilson, was proud to have his brother, John Wilson,... View Article

Watch excellent video on the life and feeding cycle of ticks

This video is full of good information on how ticks successfully infect people and other animals with diseases. Although they... View Article

“So country” radio of Penticton, BC, interviews CanLyme president

After the Penticton RCMP completed their Lyme Sucks Challenge, ‘So Country’ radio interviewed Jim Wilson, president of CanLyme, discussing what... View Article

Bilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis Requiring Tracheostomy Due to Neuroborreliosis

Carlos D. Martínez-Balzano, MD; Bruce Greenberg, MD, MBA Neuroborreliosis can cause multiple cranial and peripheral neuropathies; however, involvement of both... View Article

Maine looks to join growing list of states protecting doctors from their own licencing boards via legislation

BY JOE LAWLOR Press Herald Mar 2nd, 2015 A bill would prevent the state medical board from punishing a doctor... View Article

UC Berkeley: Study IDs key birds that host Lyme disease bacteria in California

[ CanLyme note: Western Canadian ticks often come from migratory birds from California and other western states. Borrelia bissettii was found... View Article

Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases: global challenges in the context of a public health threat

Christian Perronne c.perronne@rpc.aphp.fr Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by ticks, was initially considered a recent, rare and regional occurrence. We... View Article

The New Yorker: A New Front in the Lyme Wars [a very balanced well written article]

By Michael Specter On December 15th, without much ceremony or public comment, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law that has... View Article

Tick-borne pathogens and the vector potential of ticks in China

*Corresponding author: Jingze Liu jzliu21@heinfo.net Parasites & Vectors 2015, 8:24 doi:10.1186/s13071-014-0628-x Published: 14 January 2015 Ticks, as obligate blood-sucking ectoparasites, attack... View Article

TOUCHED BY LYME: CDC fires another salvo against “chronic Lyme”

[CanLyme note: There are no human tests for many of the borrelia species of bacteria that cause Lyme disease, yet... View Article

Lyme [borreliosis] Helps Spread Other Tick Infections

December 31, 2014 By Christopher Intagliata – Scientific American Mice infected with Lyme and the Babesia parasite are more likely... View Article

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