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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 Role of Ticks in Lyme Disease

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?

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