{"id":684742,"date":"2026-05-21T19:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684742\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:14:30","slug":"cases-of-lyme-disease-in-montreal-highest-in-more-than-20-years-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684742\/","title":{"rendered":"Cases of Lyme disease in Montreal highest in more than 20 years | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779390870_413_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A sign warning hikers of the presence of ticks in a forest in the Eastern Townships, on Wednesday 16 October 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Graham Hughes<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 21, 2026 | 9:10 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Montreal public health is warning of an uptick in Lyme disease in the city after officials recorded 161 cases in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the highest number of cases since 2003, when Lyme infections because a notifiable disease in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>The tick-born disease is on the rise across the province, with 869 cases reported between Jan. 1 and Nov. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Quebec government says the rise in tick-related infections could be explained by climate change, as warmer weather would allow ticks to survive more easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sign warning hikers of the presence of ticks in a forest in the Eastern Townships, on Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2338,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-684742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-montreal","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}