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en français For Physicians Ticks Coinfections Prevention Our Stories order our free Canadian Lyme Disease Brochure (a computer file for you to print) , Here for our Lyme Disease Poster      We are a federally registered charitable organization (864437603RR0001) dedicated to promoting research, education, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme and Associated Diseases since 2003 Write Government Reps Tell them your problems, Ask them why so little is being done. Join the Free CanLyme Email List for the latest Lyme disease news, research, and information. Picc line armband cover -Proceeds to CanLyme - by N. Bottles, Lyme patient Recent News PLEASE SIGN A PETITION to have the harmful Infectious Disease Society of America guidelines removed from government website (Canadians, and people from other countries ignore the part where the form wants you to pick a state, go directly to country and select your country). Send the petition link to all on your email lists, family, twitter, facebook, and all other social media and ask them to pass it on. Martha's Vineyard... Tick-borne babesiosis is a less well known but potent disease New Glasgow, NS:... Jan.6, 2011; Benefit concert, auction, sale planned for woman with Lyme disease New Glasgow, NS:... Jan.6, 2011; Update on donations for girl fighting Lyme disease New Glasgow, NS:... Jan.5, 2011; Girl with Lyme disease going to specialist in U.S. Yarmouth, NS:... Jan.5, 2011; Lack of snow means ticks alive, well in Yarmouth Niagara, ON:... Town asks province to look at lyme disease testing, treatment Australia:... Emerging incidence of Lyme borreliosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, and granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Australia Yarmouth, NS:... Ticks, Lyme disease warning for Yarmouth County Vancouver, BC:... Plans Unveiled For Complex Chronic Disease Clinic Cornwall, ON:... Health units caution warm weather has allowed ticks to thrive this fall York Region [Ontario]... Awareness spreads on lyme disease MPs, MPPs pledging action Bluffton resident [Alberta] seeks treatment for debilitating disease Ontario MPP asks Ontarians to sign his Lyme disease petition, Go to his link to sign. Greater Toronto and surrounding area [GTA] ... Warning: Lyme time in the GTA City councils across Ontario (103 now, which equates to 4 million Ontarion's represented) support more Lyme awareness and better testing ... Scroll timebar to 1:22 on this link, "Excellent presentation to Mississauga city council yields endorsement of petition to Ontario's Minister of Health and Long Term Care I’m housebound, my life has shrunk: judge [Ontario] Wants Lyme disease treated like West Nile by health system York Region Ontario, "Tiny Lyme tick provokes huge controversy", "York’s medical officer of health, Dr. Karim Kurji, says some of the concerns among Lyme activists may be valid." Leeds/Grenville, Ontario, "'Ground zero' for Lyme disease", says MPP Stephen Clark. 5000 year old iceman has DNA evidence of being infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease. Not a new and emerging disease after all. Poland sees 20% rise in cases of Lyme to over 10,000 cases in 2009 alone Spirochetes (from Lyme disease and other infections) observed in the brain in more than 90% of Alzheimer disease cases. August 2011. ...Read paper here. Also, view youtube video's of dental spirochete, also found in Alzheimer brains, from doctor's and dentists .... (To view you may be required to right click and select open in new tab or window) Widespread dispersal of Lyme-infected ticks collected from songbirds across Canada. Aug. 2011. Next, will the CCSVI liberation treatment initially used to treat multiple scerlosis patients help people with Lyme disease? After all it may make sense considering that Lyme disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer disease, and so many other conditions share so many symptoms. More importantly, spirochetal bacteria thrive in collagen tissue that the vein walls are made of. Is this stenosis or weakening of the vien walls a result of bacteria? This young woman hopes to restore her health with CCSVI. What is our government going to do with this latest research by Dr. Judith Miklossy, mentioned above, regarding Alzheimer disease? They cannot simply ignore it. They must take steps now to either validate or refute this peer-reviewed evidence based published paper considering we are talking about billions of dollars in health care costs on top of the human toll on the health and finances of thousands of Canadians (and their families). NIH gives in to drug companies... will not release conflict of interest details to public for NIH researchers. All research funded by them is suspect unless proven otherwise. Should Lyme disease be redefined to include all species of spirochete's (Spirochetosis), not just those species transmitted by ticks? This may explain a lot of things about why so many people do not recall a tick bite, testing failure, etc. because many species of spirochete's are not transmitted by ticks, nor present the patient with a subsequent rash. As this latest research points out so clearly these other spirochetes are not the non-invasive spirochetes we once thought they were. The question that needs answering now is... just how many neurological, musco-skeletal, and psychiatric diseases/conditions out there are actually spirochetal infections? The truth is we have no idea because in the past 5 decades only research to find drugs, vaccines, or devices to treat symptoms has been funded by our tax dollars. Only the voting public will fix this broken mess. Chatelaine magazine - Invasion of Stealthy Bug If you think people exaggerate government corruption in healthcare, watch this! It is clear the American public in this case has lost control of it's own government (you must watch the entire film to see how bad it is). Canada is not exempt, as the insanity of the Lyme issue has shown. Taxpayer funded doctors who have been part of wall against proper Lyme recognition in Canada, and leaders in the anti-antibiotic in humans push, caught in Tamiflu probe (just the tip of the iceberg). Tainted as usual but again the medical/political leaders tell us... don't worry folks, this had no influence on their position, research, funding, or their published material that our GP's must devour to be allowed to practice medicine in Canada, or else. Frankly, enough is enough, clean up our medical system. Good honest researchers wanting to do basic much needed investigation into disease are funneled into the pharma funded medical research system imposed by government in Canada. Canadians, if you have credible reason for self-identifying Lyme disease or a Lyme-like disease as your cause of illness please take the steps to complete a survey for us. Mar. 29th, 2011: Vanc. Sun: Testing not good at all, evidence weak... Read the government report. Penticton, BC: RCMP Cops for Kids cyclists rode for boy with Lyme disease Winnipeg, MB: Manitoban's odyssey leads him to a Vancouver MD Winnipeg, MB: Manitobans wage war with Lyme disease, skeptical doctors Kingston, ON: Lyme disease remains threat Rochester, MN: New tick borne disease discovered in central USA Calgary, AB: Mother warns Albertans to beware of undiagnosed Lyme disease symptoms St. John's, NL: Fatality in Newfoundland, a missed case of Lyme disease? Listen to show, scroll down to 5th story and play Hamilton, ON: Lyme disease patients at risk in Ontario Stratford, ON: Lyme disease a serious risk in southern Ontario Fort Frances, ON: Woman's letter writing campaign gets action from City Hall's for Lyme awareness Edmonton, AB: Lyme-bearing ticks found in Edmonton, Calgary Calgary, AB: Province issues Lyme disease warning after 5 ticks turn up in Calgary, Edmonton Southern Ontario: Tick-borne disease a growing risk Winnipeg, MB: Tick That Can Cause Lyme Disease Making A Home In Manitoba Guelph, ON: Canadian researcher warns public Salmon Arm, BC: Illness not ‘all in her head’ Huron County, ON: Woman with Lyme fighting for her life New Hampshire, USA: New Hamshire passes law to protect doctors. Pennsylvania, USA: Watch the Pennsylvania hearings regarding the new legislation giving doctors the right to prescribe longer term antibiotics. Huron County, ON: Spreading Awareness of Lyme Disease Sarnia, ON: Little bloodsuckers plentiful this year Summerside, PEI: A 10 - 20% or more tick infection rate seen in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Fredericton, NB: Learn a little about Lyme disease Outlook, SK: Lyme and anaplasmosis in Saskatchewan Hamilton, ON: My ALS (Lou Gehrig's) was Lyme disease. Brockville, ON: The pain, misery of Lyme disease. Vitoria, BC: CanLyme director David Cubberley, patient Nicole Bottles on TV. Fredericton, NB: Province worries Lyme disease is spreading into N.B. Pictou, NS: Vet finds Lyme disease in Pictou County puppy New Glasgow, NS: Benefit for 11 yr old girl with Lyme disease. Merritt, BC: Boy survives devastating tick bite. Sarnia, ON: 900 letters signed and sent to Ontario Minister of Health. Saint Paul, MN: American Red Cross researches blood supply for tick-borne diseases. Stoney Creek, ON: Lyme could be your symptoms Winnipeg, MB" Ticks invade south-central Manitoba. Ottawa, ON: Lyme groups holds rally on Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Salmon Arm, BC: Lyme disease changes life Victoria, BC: Visiting Canada's Lyme-leper Colony in San Francisco Texas, US: Two Lyme disease bills target gap in treatment in Texas Sooke, BC: Lyme sufferer continues battle for diagnosis Fort Collins, Colorado: USA Center for Disease Control developing safe bug repellent Vancouver, BC: Lyme disease, more needs to be done Salmon Arm, BC: Lyme disease rare in Shuswap (BC) Canadian research indicates strain variation may be reason for concern in negative test results for suspected cases of Lyme disease in Canada Vancouver, BC: B.C. announces $2 million to study fibromyalgia, Lyme disease, chronic fatigue Vancouver, BC: Government report: Most B.C. doctors not trained to diagnose Lyme disease. Salmon Arm, BC: Dismal diagnosis Edmonton Journal, AB: Doctors must be allowed to contribute to policy debate without fear Lunenburg, NS: NS doctors and federal labs miss obvious diagnosis Tracy, NB: Pet owners warned about Lyme in New Brunswick CBC TV, Canada: 24 cases of false negative Canadian tests caught Penticton, BC: Students stage very successful fundraiser for one of their own. Vaughan, ON: City Life - Tick Talk Orillia, ON: Two years of hell Canada: Lyme disease occurs 3 times more frequently than heartworm in Canadian dogs Pictou, NS: NSCC students learn about Lyme disease Pictou, NS: Artist confronts symptoms of Lyme disease Ontario: Two Lyme disease patients tell their story on the Huron County Health Unit website. Canada: Misidentified species can wreak havoc: panel Simcoe, ON: Lyme disease debilitating Richmond News, BC: Lyme sufferers accuse disease control centre of covering up real figures The Atlantic: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science United States: Doctor pleasds guilty to scamming Lyme disease patients Vancouver, BC: Researchers who fake results should be named, academic panel urges Victoria, BC: Doctor's survey shows...what?? British Columbia: CBC TV, Number of Lyme cases in BC hidden Victoria: Lyme disease warrants more attention: group Alberta: I wouldn't wish this on anybody Penticton, BC: COPS FOR KIDS Help Teen Lyme Victim Amherst, NS: Amherst resident feels Lyme Disease is under diagnosed Vancouver, ON: Canadians with Lyme disease left to fend for themselves letter 1, letter 2 ... in response to this article. Toronto, ON: Lyme Disease: Tick Talk Perth, ON: Dedicated athelete facing biggest challenge, Pt.1, Pt. 2 Bedford, NS: Lyme ticks spread in Bedford Edmonton, AB: More ticks found in Alberta Vancouver, BC: People with Lyme disease say they can’t get treatment Winnipeg, MB: Lyme disease found beyond South East Manitoba Thunder Bay, ON: Lyme disease confirmed in the Thunder Bay region. Newfoundland: Lyme disease found in Newfoundland Edmonton, Alberta: Multiple Sclerosis patients not waiting for the slow wheels of government Richmond, BC: Disease expert dismisses Lyme diagnosis Manitoba: Lyme disease can do more than tick off your dog Toronto Star: Lyme disease on the rise New Brunswick: New Brunswick added to watch list Victoria: Lyme and Ehrlichiosis in dogs Windsor Star, Ontario: Lyme disease on the rise Global TV, Calgary: Lyme disease warning for Albertans CBC radio, The Current: Anna Maria Tremonti interview's Dr. McShane Vancouver, BC: Listen to June 7th, 2010 Coop radio 102.7 FM, Lyme disease Kelowna, BC: Bite from a tick can make you sick More Lyme in the news ... FUNDRAISERS Magnotta Winery Raises $52,000.00 for CanLyme from the 2011 annual Gabe Magnotta Memorial Golf Classic in June, the Underground Spring Cocktail Party, and Toonie's for CanLyme that ran in May, Lyme awareness month. Another fantastic contribution by Rossana Magnotta and her staff who invest many hours of their time toward these events. Thank You!! Little Black Dress Event, Waterloo, ON held in May, 2011 raises over $18,000.00 for CanLyme !! A big thanks goes out to Randy and Judy Bird, Wendy Woodhall, and many others !! September 26th, 2010 See the pictures taken during the Isabel Bader Theatre, University of Toronto film screening of UNDER OUR SKIN and a V.I.P. panel discussion. - The Gabe Magnotta Memorial Sporting Clays Classic raises $9420.00 for CanLyme ! - The Great Canadian Lyme Disease Freefall was a huge success! See the dramatic photos ! - A big thank you goes to the Penticton Secondary School in BC who put on a very successful fundraiser for CanLyme - June 2010. You can help too with your donation or, Order the special CanLyme run of Magnotta wine with proceeds from every bottle going to CanLyme: White, Red Order the beautiful Lyme awareness pendant, and/or bracelet with a silver CanLyme logo leaf. Lyme Disease....A vector borne bacterial infection, (ticks are one known vector) which has caused controversy in the past decades because of its difficult diagnosis and treatment. The organism is highly fastidious, growing extremely slowly in tissue culture (not bacteriological) media. The vast majority of body fluid or tissue samples from patients with Lyme disease do not yield spirochetes on culture. Lyme disease is thus usually clinically diagnosed. Possible detection of serum antibodies to burgdorferi may only augment the clinical diagnosis. However, acutely antibodies may not occur in detectable titer, making early diagnosis difficult. Many later stage seronegative patients are very symptomatic and treatment intervention has been shown to be very effective. The tick O.hermsii has been implicated as a possible vector and some Canadian cases are reviewed. Lyme disease is now an epidemic in several US states.4 Estimates are now at 3 million cases of Lyme disease in the US in 3 decades. Most of these cases are from states that border Canada yet Canada reports it has only had a few hundred cases...? See an epidemiological map of what is immediately across our border. Canada has no such info - yet where we look we find Lyme. Lyme borreliosis is now acknowledged as the most highly prevalent arthropod-borne human disease in northern temperate regions of the world5. Canadian medicine and science, due to the lack of recognition of the clinical diagnoses, combined with lack of surveillance and research, places us at the bottom of the scale in dealing with this serious disease. We are years behind. Many Lyme patients were firstly diagnosed with other illnesses such as Juvenile Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Reactive Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Infectious Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Interstitial Cystitis, Gastro esophageal Reflux Disease, Fifth's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, scleroderma, lupus, early ALS, early Alzheimers Disease, crohn's disease, ménières syndrome, reynaud's syndrome, Sjogren's syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, prostatitis, psychiatric disorders (bipolar, depression, etc.), encephalitis, sleep disorders, thyroid disease and various other illnesses. If you have received one of these diagnoses please go to our symptoms page and see if you recognize a broader range of symptoms. If you are a doctor please re-examine these diagnoses, incorporating Lyme in the differential diagnoses. If you feel you may have Lyme Disease you are encouraged to contact us. If you have a rash please photograph it (a close-up) and send it to us with as much detail about date/time, place, any tick bite noticed. Please include your name and phone number for our records in trying to track this disease. All information is confidential and shall never be released to anyone without your written consent. Lyme disease is not new to Canadian health leadership but you would not know this if you have ever had the pleasure of your doctor trying to convince you that Lyme disease is rare in Canada... we magically missed the epidemic every other northern hemisphere country has. ...Here is a medical report from 1988. Lyme Disease is not the only tick borne disease in Canada but can be complicated by multiple tick-borne co-infections such as Ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis, and Bartonella. Other tick borne diseases include Tularemia, Tick Paralysis and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Lyme Disease is determined by clinicians, not labs ...no lab has a gold standard test to date, some labs are just better than others. The only treatment available to date is antibiotic. If caught early and treatment given in sufficient dosage over sufficient time all is well in most cases. There remains a significant number of treatment failures usually as a result of insufficient dose/time of treatment and/or late diagnoses. These treatment failures have proven to benefit significantly from longer term antibiotic treatment and patients sometimes have to be very demanding to receive such treatment. One has to be realistic...not being able to find something by available methods in science means nothing to the sick patient who recovers after many weeks/months of appropriate treatment. Therein lies the difficulty and undermining of appropriate treatment. The cost of treating Lyme disease with antibiotics can be expensive in the relative short term so without a doubt business/politics become involved. Without a definitive test the door is left open for money to rule over health. However, the cost of not treating Lyme, or treating it inadequately, is infinitely more expensive. The majority of research is funded/lobbied by 1. Insurers (motivated to keep treatment costs/duration to a minimum). 2. Governments (heavily lobbied by private/public insurers as well as tourism dollars). 3. Drug manufacturers (motivated to peddle drugs and vaccines). The results of this heavily influenced research are what we educate our medical students with, who then become our doctors with a bias. Therefore it takes the wise front line physician to wade through the swamp and treat the patient using good sound judgment. The better doctors learned early on that some of what they were taught just didn't add up when they encountered their real world patients. Common sense still applies...even in science. Symptoms may show up fast, with a bang, or very slowly and innocuously. They may creep into ones life over weeks, months or even years. While antibiotic treatment carries risk, it pales in comparison to the serious danger and cost (in productivity, income and family) of developing late stage illness that may develop within weeks even before the first Lyme tests have returned. Learn here what can and should be done. Consult a qualified Lyme Disease literate doctor for medical advice if Lyme Disease is suspect. Ref: 1. CDC MMWR Weekly 3. http://www.medtech1.com/research_center/cond20.cfm/48 4. http://www.canLyme.com/confirmedUScasesto2003.html 5.Lyme Borreliosis: Biology, Epidemiology and Control Edited by J. S. Gray, University College Dublin, Ireland, O. Kahl, Free University of Berlin, Germany, R. S. Lane, University of California at Berkeley, USA, and G. Stanek, University of Vienna, Austria September 2002 480 pages Share with Facebook Rossana Magnotta with John Oakley, Talk 640 AM - Part 1 - Part 2 Listen to Dr. Maureen McShane on CBC radio show The Current, Sept. 15/11 (scroll to 10 min. mark) Listen to medical researcher Tom Grier discuss his run in with Lyme disease, Sept. 2011 (allow time to load)... Part 1; Part 2; Part 3 CanLyme director David Cubberley on CFAX radio, Global TV reveals government report, here Read the report. Listen to: CanLyme President Jim Wilson on radio show Goldhawk Fights Back. Pt. 2 - Keith Poullos, GTA support group. NEW CANADIAN BOOK Ending Denial: A Canadian Public Health Disaster 500+ pages CBC radio interviews - John Scott, David Cubberley, Bonnie Henry Canadian & Int'l Lyme News Coverage - Click Here Dr. Doug Wilson on radio show Goldhawk Fights Back - Listen Here Must have iTunes player - Download Free here Comprehensive Lyme News Report - Click Here CTV NEWS - Lyme spreading across Canada, June '09, Sept. '09, Nov'09 Lyme Disease Radio Ads Run Canada-wide Lyme discussed on Okanagan BC TV Tick Removal Methods CanLyme's Book Of The Year! Canadian Grade 9 student gives impressive Lyme Powerpoint presentation (may take a few minutes to load) Lyme In Your Province: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, P.E.I., Newfoundland Are you a victim of colloidial silver poisoning Many cases of argyria (permanent dark discoloration of skin caused by overuse of medicinal silver preparations) are now surfacing. 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