Understanding and Preventing Tick Bites

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This chapter provides detailed guidance on safely removing ticks from the skin and emphasizes the importance of prompt removal to reduce disease transmission risk. It explores the factors contributing to Lyme disease prevalence in Connecticut, the habitats that promote tick populations in backyards, and the challenges of disseminating accurate tick prevention information. The discussion also delves into tick behavior, misconceptions about tick bites, and contrasts tick and mosquito host preferences.

Ticks: They’re tiny. They’re thirsty. They’re drooling vectors of various illnesses and they want nothing more than to cuddle up to your darkest crevices. In the episode, learn 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. Acarologist, medical entomologist and tick expert Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally chats with me from her West Connecticut State University Tick Lab to discuss al of these things and to charm her way into your heart like a hypostome under your skin.

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