Vaughan Walk For Lyme Disease 2016

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Nov. 1, 2016

The Vaughan Walk for Lyme 2016 took place on October 2nd at Vaughan City Hall. Guests had a fun filled morning on a 5 km leisure walk with their family and pets to help raise awareness of Lyme Disease in Canada. All net proceeds from this event will go directly to the G. Magnotta Foundation for Vector-Borne Diseases to help fund Canada's long-awaited research facility dedicated to Lyme Disease and other vector-borne illnesses. The facility's research project is essential to improving testing and treatment of this devastating disease for all Canadians, many of whom have had to leave the country to get an accurate diagnosis and proper care. Today, with Lyme Disease reaching epidemic proportions, this upcoming research facility is giving Lyme patients in Canada a sense of hope that change is coming.
Transmitted to humans through the bite of infected ticks, Lyme Disease is now found in all Canadian provinces and is expected to grow with the increased speed of tick invasion. One of the top 10 misdiagnosed diseases in the world, this multi-system infection can attack every part of a person's body and cause symptoms that mimic Multiple Sclerosis, ALS, Alzheimer's and Parkinsonism resulting in a prolonged misdiagnosis.