The Importance of an Anti-Tick Vaccine

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Nita's body lets her know when she's got a sucky blood barnacle. Some researchers are trying to capitalize on that because there are people who are very reactive to ticks and so can there be a vaccine that is an anti-tick vaccine, right? And it will make you itchy or reactive to a tick bite so that you catch it before it has time to transmit anything. Deli Dames wants to know, how does the town of Lyon feel about having a disease named? You'd have to ask the town of Lyons residents.

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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Donations were made to TickEncounter, Union of Concerned Scientists, and 826 Valencia