The Effects of Ticks on Lyme Disease

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Most cases of Lyme disease and some of the other diseases that are associated with black legged tick bites occur in spring or summer. Adult ticks bigger and more Lyme and disease ridden nymphs less Lyme, but it's more likely you'll find one in a crevice in spring because no one is out November. Ticks do not fly. They don't jump. they don't hop. So if you find a tick on your head, it probably found you somewhere lower on your body and crawled upward and it didn't fall out of a tree. I think that's the big one in that and that and leaving the head in. We don't really leave the whole head in. Just

It’s 2-for-1! Ticks AND Lyme: together in one helpful, disgusting, gossipy, empowering

episode. This pair of episodes is about tiny, thirsty ticks and the diseases they spit into you is wall to wall wisdom from Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally of the West Connecticut State University Tick Lab and Dr. Andrea Swei of SFSU’s Swei Lab cover how to remove a tick, if you should spray your yard and with what, how landscaping affects tick exposure, why Lyme Disease is spreading, the Lone Star Tick rolling into town, how to protect your pets and why the CC ruined poppyseed muffins. Also: Powassan virus, meat allergies, paralysis ticks, and twin princesses Borrelia and Babesia.

Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally and Dr. Andrea Swei will charm their way into your heart like a hypostome under your skin.

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