The Evolution of Lyme Disease

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Did you ever eat any of the oats and peanut butter balls because this sounds really good? You know, I never did. Even though it smelled good, you know, we mix it in these big vats. And it's just not appetizing. Although, yeah, my students do make jokes about how as starving grad students, they can dip into it if they really needed to. Yes. That's a common marketing ploy, you know. It sounds like cookie dough. But I guess in a five-gallon home depot bucket mixed with like a stick, it's a little different.

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.

Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally’s videos, website, Twitter and Instagram

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