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

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

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: Lyme Disease, Powassan virus, that Lonestar tick meat allergy, 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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0:00.0	Oh, hi, it's me from the future.
0:02.5	Well, at least from 2023, it's Ali.
0:04.3	Hi, so is this a two and a half hour program about ticks?
0:08.4	Really? Yes, it is because listen, I care about you.
0:11.6	All right, since these episodes aired in 2019,
0:15.0	it has been four years and every spring, every summer and fall as it turns out.
0:19.6	More on that later, I wonder are people staying safe?
0:22.6	Have they heard those two tick episodes we did?
0:25.2	So this week as I was sitting in my little hut on my little butt working
0:29.8	and looking through a book of allergies, I saw the word a caropathology,
0:33.8	which is the study of tick-borne illnesses.
0:35.6	And I thought, well, shoot, here's one that's going to be perfect for an encore.
0:38.7	So we decided to serve them up again for your health.
0:42.3	We jammed them into one sandwich, like a big, disgusting, helpful peanut butter and jelly.
0:46.9	Okay? I even reached out to both guests.
0:49.7	And as an adult woman, I was giddy to get emails back right away updates on their work,
0:55.0	which I've threaded through this episode with updates,
0:58.0	plus a ridiculous story about them I'm going to share at the end.
1:01.9	So first, let's learn about blood sucking goblins that sleep in your butt crack.
1:07.0	Enjoy this encore.
1:08.4	Oh, it's so good. It's really so good.
1:11.1	Oh, hey, it's that sweatshirt who's so flattered that you've worn it three days in a row,
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