Disease Ecology (LYME/TICK-BORNE ILLNESSES) with Andrea Swei

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Lyme Disease! Powassan virus! That Lonestar tick meat allergy! Paralysis ticks! Acarology taught us all about the eight-legged villains that aim for our crevices, but Disease Ecologist Dr. Andrea Swei offers a deep dive under the skin to learn more about what nasties a tick can give us. We chat a whole bunch about Lyme Disease: its prevalence, testing, treatment, which animals carry it, “chronic Lyme” vs. post-treatment Lyme. We also cover how lizards might harbor a helpful protein, two Ukrainian princesses by the names of Borrelia and Babesia, why you'll want chickens and possums hanging out at your barbecues, Lyme vaccines, pet care, symptoms, prevention and what scares her most. This one's a wonderful episode on its own, but is even better as a follow up to Acarology: the nightmare lesson of how ticks work. Listen to the Acarology (TICKS) episode: alieward.com/ologies/acarology Follow Dr. Swei on Twitter @Andesweior @SweiLab Donations went to: Union of Concerned Scientists, and 826 Valencia Sponsor links: “You” podcast by Okta; Kiwico.com/Ologies; HelixSleep.com/Ologies; thegreatcoursesplus.com/ologies More links at alieward.com/ologies/diseaseecology Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0	Oh hey, it's your old Uncle Dad.
0:02.7	Who's not too proud to shove a finger in each of his ears when a fire truck goes by?
0:07.6	It's too loud.
0:08.7	Alleyward, back with another episode of Oligies.
0:11.9	All right, diseases.
0:13.3	Nobody likes them.
0:14.3	Not even vectors, probably.
0:16.0	But isn't it nice to be united in a common dislike of them?
0:20.7	So let's clamor down into a big juicy vat of tick-borne illness, shall we?
0:27.3	So we covered acurology a few weeks ago, and I promise that I would hustle
0:31.9	to get you a follow-up on tick-spit souvenirs that they can give you.
0:36.8	And this week is the week.
0:38.4	Did you come out of acurology liking ticks?
0:41.3	Just a little bit.
0:43.0	Because I didn't.
0:43.8	I still hate them very deeply.
0:45.7	And they've silently crawled to the very, very tippy top of my shit list.
0:50.7	So let's talk about what they can do to us.
0:54.0	But first, let me talk about you.
0:56.2	And just how much I like you.
0:58.0	So thanks to everyone who is supporting the show via Patreon.
1:01.5	I could not make allergies without you.
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