Costco Connection magazine: Beware the tick, ‘Targeting Lyme disease’

Staying informed can be your best . By Jane Doucet WITH THE WARM weather arriving, many Canadians will be spending... View Article

Researchers Discover Never-Before-Seen Tickborne Disease

April 27th, 2015 Tickborne diseases are a major public health problem around the world. Ticks carry and transmit a variety... View Article

Case report: Mother to fetus transmission of Babesia, a tick-borne infection

The Anemic and Thrombocytopenic Febrile Neonate Nickolas D. Surra, MD, John E. Jesus, MD Christiana Care Health Center, Newark, Delaware... 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

Health officials ramp up tick monitoring for Powassan Virus

CityNews reporter Andrea Piunno with what health officials are doing to protect you and what you should watch out for.... View Article

Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Spirochetes in Wild Birds in Northwestern California: Associations with Ecological Factors, Bird Behavior and Tick Infestation

Published: February 25, 2015 Abstract Although Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) are found in a great diversity of vertebrates, most... 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

Cochrane Eagle newspaper’s Lyme borreliosis articles received first place in most read articles

[CanLyme note: This is another indication that the Canadian public wants to know more about why Lyme borreliosis is not being... View Article

Bill C-442 opens talks on Lyme disease

December 31, 2014 Belleville News By Diane Sherman Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, introduced... View Article

Cochrane, Alberta: Bill C-442 leaves Lyme sufferers hopeful for change

Thursday, Dec 18, 2014 06:00 am By: Lindsay Seewalt Last May, the Eagle ran a story on the controversies... View Article

No concern about why the patient is sick, just that it is not allowed to be Lyme disease

[CanLyme note: “Another month went by and a call was received from the ID specialist in Calgary. We were informed... View Article

Global TV: Lyme disease researcher looks to support groups for information

By Brion Robinson SACKVILLE, N.B. – A Mount Allison University professor says Lyme disease support groups could hold important information about... View Article

Crowdsourcing used to fund Lyme disease FOI request

BY PAMELA FAYERMAN, VANCOUVER SUN SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 In tickety-tock time Monday morning, a Lyme disease advocate was successful in crowdsourcing... View Article

Taylor George went 13 years before being diagnosed with Lyme

By April Hudson, Spruce Grove Examiner/Stony Plain Reporter Friday, September 5, 2014 2:31:03 MDT PM Fibromyalgia. Chronic fatigue. Osteoporosis. Myo facial... View Article

Ticks may transmit disease faster than currently thought

BY SHEREEN LEHMAN Fri Aug 22, 2014 1:12pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Brazilian ticks that carry Rocky Mountain... View Article

Lyme disease growing increasingly common in Quebec

Originating in Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s, the disease has now made its way North. Quebec’s first cases emerged in... View Article

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