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Acaropathology (TICKS & LYME DISEASE) Updated Mega Encore with Neeta Pardanani Connally & Andrea Swei

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Importance of Host Blood Meal Identity in Ticks

A new study shows that feeding on different species can affect a tick's ability to get and transmit a pathogen. The larval ticks, the teeny tiny ones, feed on lizards first instead of mice. When they molt into nymphs or teenager ticks and they feed on an infected mouse, they're more than two times more likely to get the pathogen. So what do we do? All have what she's having.

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