(Elizabeth Di Filippo/ Yahoo News) — Tick season has officially arrived in Canada.

Ticks thrive in temperatures 4°C and higher, but they have been shown to survive in colder climates. With warm weather on the horizon, the risk of contracting a tick bite is higher, as black-legged ticks are most active in the spring.

Ticks  …

(The Montreal Gazette) — Quebec will open 15 clinics specialized in long-COVID and Lyme disease across the province, health minister Christian Dubé announced on Thursday.

The network, to be coordinated by the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), is to include five referral centres and 10 satellite  …

(Adrian Baranchuk/ The Conversation) — Lyme disease is a tick-born infection caused by bacteria known as Borrelia burgdorferi. Lyme carditis is an early manifestation of Lyme disease that can occur two to six weeks after the tick bite.

Approximately five to 10 per cent of patients presenting to family doctors’  …