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The Naked Scientists Podcast

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What Is a Tick Disorder?

There is no correlation between social media use and tick frequency. Only five percent of participants actually reported using social media to look up things related to ticks. In a recent small scale study, there was found to be a link between social media usage and an increase in severity of tick like behaviors in individuals. And this comincides with observations that there appear to be more teen ages, particularly teen age girls, who are developing tick like behaviors.

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