Lyme Disease in Canada - general
(Links Only)

Lyme disease is a serious bacterial infection caused by a tick bite and affects humans and animals.

This page contains links to resources and information of general interest on Lyme disease in Canada and common to all or most provinces in Canada. For information on Lyme disease in individual provinces, see: Lyme Disease in the United States and Canada

This page contains links only. For text version of "Lyme Disease in Canada - general", which includes pertinent extracts from the existing links and from now defunct links, e.g., media items, see Lyme Disease in Canada - general (Text Version)

Table of Contents

General search for Lyme disease in Canada
Federal government on Lyme disease in Canada
Canada rules, reports, and forms for reporting Lyme disease
Health Canada on Lyme disease in Canada
Resources for provincial governments on Lyme disease in Canada
Other information on Lyme disease in Canada
Media articles about Lyme disease in Canada
Medical and scientific abstracts on Lyme disease in Canada
Resources for Lyme disease patient support groups in Canada
Miscellaneous or unfiled links for Lyme disease in Canada

For more information on Lyme disease see: Lots Of Links On Lyme Disease



Lyme Disease in Canada

General search for Lyme disease in Canada

Google Search
Canada.com - Canadian Search Engine, Free E-mail, And Canada's News
AltaVista Canada Search Engine - The Canadian Search Engine - Advanced search

Federal government on Lyme disease in Canada

Canada Site / Site du Canada
Search - Canada Site 
Search - Canada Site lyme OR burgdorferi AND NOT "A-Z Subject Index" - 162 on 17 Apr 01
Search - Canada Site lyme OR burgdorferi - 250 on 17 Apr 01

Environment Canada, Effects of Climate Change Across Canada
The Canada Country Study - National summary for policy makers
Debates of the House of Commons of Canada, Monday, September 18, 1995

Other Government Search Engines
Parks Canada
Parks search - lyme - 3 on 17 Apr 01

Canada rules, reports, and forms for reporting Lyme disease

Disease Surveillance On-Line - LCDC - Health Canada
Notifiable Diseases On-Line
Notifiable Diseases On-Line - for 1998 [Lyme disease not a national notifiable disease in Canada]
New Cases Reported from 1 January - 31 March 1998, CCDR - Volume 24-14, 15 July 1998

Health Canada on Lyme disease in Canada

Welcome to Health Canada Online
Search Health Canada's Web Site
Search Health Canada's Web Site lyme - 68 on 17 Apr 01

Laboratory Centre for Disease Control
Search the Site - LCDC - Health Canada
Laboratory Centre for Disease Control Search lyme - 110 on 17 Apr 01
Laboratory Centre for Disease Control Search burgdorferi - 59 on 17 Apr 01

Case Definitions for Diseases Under National Surveillance - CCDR Vol. 26S3 2000
Case Definitions for Diseases Under National Surveillance, 30 Aug 00 - Lyme disease
Borrelia burgdorferi - Material Safety Data Sheets, LCDC, 23 Jan 01
Vector of Lyme Borreliosis, I. scapularis, Identified in Saskatchewan, CCDR Vol. 25-9, May 99 - [Also found in Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec.]
Distribution of I. pacificus/scapularis re Concurrent Babesiosis/LD, CCDR Vol 24-15, 1 Aug 98
Fever in the International Traveller Initial Assessment Guidelines, CCDR, 1 Apr 97
Isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi on Mainland Ontario, CCDR Vol. 21-10, May 95 [pdf file]
Isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi on Mainland Ontario, CCDR Vol. 21-10, May 95 [html file]

Resources for provincial governments on Lyme disease in Canada

Provincial And Territorial Governments
Provincial and Territorial Ministries of Health - Canada (CDC)

Other information on Lyme disease in Canada

Canadian Universities and Colleges
CANADASPACE.COM Canadian Universities - Canada's Home on the Web

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) - Lyme Disease
NAOSH Week 2001 - May 6-12 - Lyme Disease: Knowing the Facts
Protecting Workers From Lyme Disease, OHS Canada Magazine

Media articles about Lyme disease in Canada

NewsDirectory: Newspapers: Canada
Newspapers and other media sources from Canada, Kidon Media-Link

Mosquito Summit launches 2000 Biting Bug Season, Canada Newswire, 15 May 00
Dreaded Lyme disease bug moves north, The Canadian Press, July 06, 1998
Lyme Disease - Don't Let It Happen To You, Calgary Herald, September, 1995

Medical and scientific information on Lyme disease in Canada

MEDLINE - Medical and scientific abstracts on Lyme disease in Canada - 71 on 21 Apr 01
Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)
Search results for Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) for lyme - 51 on 21 Apr 01
Medscape Clinical Full-Text: (lyme OR borreliosis OR...) AND Canada - 19 on 21 Apr 01
Google Search: Canada conference site:www.lyme.org (LDF) - 4 on 21 Apr 01
Lymenet: Abstracts: (International Scientific Conferences OR JSTD) AND Canada-1 on 21 Apr 01
Medscape News: (lyme OR borreliosis OR...) AND Canada NOT ProMed - 6 on 21 Apr 01
Medscape News: (lyme OR borreliosis OR...) AND Canada AND ProMed - 51 on 21 Apr 01

Spirochete causing LD, Bb, in the blacklegged tick...in southern Ontario, CMAJ, 30 May 00
How to Diagnose and Treat Lyme Disease in Children, CMAJ, Jul 1992 [Google cache copy]
Consensus Conference on Lyme Disease, CMA Journal 1991; 144: 1627-1632
CDC MMWR: International Notes Lyme Disease -- Canada, October 06, 1989 / 38(39);677-678

Subject: PRO/AH> 16 Sep 1999, Lyme disease, bird tick - Canada (Nova Scotia)
Subject: PRO/AH> 25 Jun 1998, Babesiosis & Lyme disease, concurrent - Canada (02)
Subject: PRO/AH> 23 Jun 1998, Babesiosis & Lyme disease, concurrent - Canada (Ont.)
Subject: PRO/AH> 27 Aug 1997, Borrelia burgdorferi, tick transmission
Subject: PRO/AH> 24 Aug 1997, Lyme disease - Canada (02)

ProMED-mail Archives search results for Lyme disease AND Canada - 19 on 30 Jul 01

Resources for Lyme disease patient support groups in Canada

LymeNet Support Group Listings
LDF Support Groups: Canada
Lyme Alliance - State, National, and Foreign Organizations

Miscellaneous or unfiled links on Lyme disease in Canada

Lyme disease vaccine, Paediatrics & Child Health, May/June 2000



Also see:

Lyme disease in Canada (Text Version) [Includes information from defunct links.]

For Lyme disease in individual provinces, see: Lyme Disease in the United States and Canada

For more information on Lyme disease see: Lots Of Links On Lyme Disease

Comments or questions concerning this page should be directed to Art Doherty.

Last updated on 21 April 2001 by
Art Doherty
Lompoc, California
doherty@utech.net

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