Tick Check! Meet Your Backyard Bloodsuckers
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Explore "ticks" with insightful episodes like "Tick Check! Meet Your Backyard Bloodsuckers", "Acaropathology (TICKS & LYME DISEASE) Updated Mega Encore with Neeta Pardanani Connally & Andrea Swei", "Ticks, Mites and Mysterious Lone Star Illnesses" and "Why Ticks Suck" from podcasts like ""Short Wave", "Ologies with Alie Ward", "Stuff To Blow Your Mind" and "Stuff You Should Know"" and more!
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
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Ticks are, in the words of Pliny the Elder, 'the foulest and nastiest creature that be.' If these blood sucking arachnids and their mite brethren weren’t horrible enough, they’re second only to the mosquito in the risk of blood borne human pathogens. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss ticks, chiggers and the mysterious illnesses associated with the lone star tick -- one of which generates a meat allergy in the host.
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It's no surprise that ticks are one of mankind's least favorite animals. After all, they subsist on blood and spread disease. But how much do we really know about ticks? Tune in to learn more about ticks -- and how to get rid of them -- in this podcast.
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