Health committee  Samuel Donta. He is a retired infectious diseases specialist, still living. He practised at Boston University and was at the forefront of infectious diseases doctors when the Lyme disease epidemic first came to the fore back in the 1970s and 1980s. He was able to practise in Lyme

Health committee  I'm an internal medicine specialist. I was trained as a nephrologist, which is the study and treatment of kidney diseases. My career has spanned about three decades. I now practise in a cardiovascular risk reduction area. I see a large number of diabetic patients, and I do a lot

Health committee  Yes, that would be fair. The science in this area is contested. There is no keeper of 100% truth with this issue.

Health committee  I would boil down the entire controversy to a competition in science. One group is wanting to have very fixed guidelines for the purposes of having everyone follow the same pattern or recipe. The other group, I think, is looking in a more holistic fashion at the outcome for an in

Health committee  I disagree with the statement that Dr. Njoo has just given about the testing being pretty good after a few weeks. Clearly, he is not a clinician. Clearly, he doesn't see Lyme disease patients. The testing is not reliable. At its best performance, the test, when it is subjected to

Health committee  It's a real tall order. I'm a specialist. I'm not a family physician. Maybe Liz should be talking to this question as well, but from the perspective of being a specialist, I feel the pressure to do the reading of contemporary literature in my little silo area, and I have trouble

Health committee  I've answered Mr. Kang's question almost the same way. I think this entire process needs an oversight committee that has equal representation and a little bit of power.

Health committee  Vaccines for Lyme disease are available for my dog. Vaccines have been developed for humans. A LYMErix vaccine was developed in the late 1990s. When it was applied, the vaccine caused a number of Lyme-related symptoms in recipients and was removed from the market. The research

Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Kang. I think that, moving forward, this framework needs to be supervised by an oversight committee. I would propose that an oversight committee similar to what has been put forward by legislation in Congress would be an excellent idea, with equal repres

Health committee  Thank you, Dr. Carrie. I agree with you. I think the framework has missed the mark. I think the reason it has missed the mark is that there are people within the mechanism of health delivery in Canada who do not want to cut the umbilical cord from the CDC in Atlanta. You've hear

Health committee  I would point to the researchers' getting together at Queen's University two weeks before the framework conference to have a closed meeting, by invitation only, to set up their research network as being an example of how these evidence-based expert types of things come forward. T

Health committee  I am itching to get in. Dr. Njoo has not been completely open about the differences in testing between the United States and Canada. The national medical laboratory authored a paper, which is in the medical literature, in February 2017, on the diversity of test results in Canada

Health committee  Mr. Webber, my practice in prescribing to my patients is not constrained by the guidelines and is not constrained by any arbitrary time limit. The guidelines actually contain a very small disclaimer at the outset identifying that they are voluntary and that they are not meant to

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  Sure. Thank you, Mr. Webber. The Babesia duncani and Babesia microti are both intraerythrocytic parasites that are similar in some ways to the malaria parasite. They are not Lyme disease, but they are tick-borne infections. They're transmitted by the same ticks that carry Lyme d