Canadian Lyme patients hope conference fixes ‘woefully inadequate’ healthcare

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I hope this conference makes a difference in the end, because there have been many cases of Canadians who had to travel to the US in order to get the proper Lyme diagnosis. What do you think?

By Andrew Foote, CBC News

Canadians living with Lyme disease say they hope a national conference in Ottawa helps fix the many issues they see with the way Canada diagnoses and treats the disease.

The three-day conference with politicians, patients and scientists is part of the push to establish a national framework on the disease, caused by bacteria carried by infected black-legged ticks.

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