The Role of Ticks in Lyme Disease

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New research suggests that host targeted pesticide treatment and host targeted vaccines may reduce the density of those disease-causing ticks. But remember, from Nita's research, you can't just go after the rodents. What about an army of marsupials? I understand also that possums are big tick eaters. Do they get bitten by ticks a lot or do they just do the biting of the ticks? Many of them don't survive. And so when it comes to Lyme disease, can you explain what is happening with it? How does it infect us?

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