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Warming climate affecting infectious disease risk from tropical/semitropical organisms in Canada
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 27, 2024 Source: As Canada warms, infectious disease risks spread north
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A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against Lyme Disease
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 18, 2024 Source:A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against Lyme Disease
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Canadians are travelling to Mexico for Lyme disease treatments. That worries health experts. Chronic disease outcome not of bacterial origin but as a consequence of immune function gone awry.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 10, 2023 Source:Canadians are travelling to Mexico for Lyme disease treatments. That worries health experts
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Neuroimaging study reveals functional and structural brain abnormalities in people with post-treatment Lyme disease
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 28, 2022 Source:Neuroimaging study reveals functional and structural brain abnormalities in people with post-treatment Lyme disease Reference:A multimodal neuroimaging study of brain abnormalities and clinical correlates in post treatment Lyme disease
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A vaccine for Lyme disease is in its Phase 3 trial. Results to date show efficacy and safety. If trial is successful, official authorization expected in 2025.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 10, 2022 Source:A vaccine for Lyme disease is in its final clinical trial
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Prolonged use of antibiotics for Lyme disease is not helpful nor recommended.
Health Headlines Commentary for March 18, 2019 Source: Canadian experts say prolonged antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease ‘harmful’ Reference: Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada
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Lyme disease awareness advocacy group wants more studies to determine if Lyme disease can be transmitted to fetus.
Health Headlines Commentary for January 22, 2019 Source: Mothers on a mission to prove Lyme disease can be passed to unborn child
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Lyme disease testing has recognized standards. More investigations into other methods are ongoing.
Health Headlines Commentary for June 8, 2018 Source: Doctor calls for standard Lyme disease testing
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Lyme disease infection rates on the rise in Ottawa
Health Headlines Commentary for November 17, 2017 Source: Lyme disease cases more than double in Ottawa this year