Ep. 182 | Ticks and Tick Born Illness - What You Need to Know

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Getin' Ticky With It! Jim and Mark burrow in deep with E.R. Doc. and tick expert, Charlie Pearce, for an in-depth discussion on everything ticks. Creepy, yes! Fascinating, yes! An ever-increasing problem with serious health ramifications, yes! What is a tick and ticks of interest. How do ticks work? What is their life cycle? Why are ticks so effective as a vector for disease? What is questing? Why is a tick bite painless? What is Lyme disease? Growth of Lyme disease in the US. Spirochetes, what are they? Symptoms of Lyme. Treatments for Lyme. Short and long-term effects of Lyme. We cover all this and more!! If you go outside, this is one you need to listen to!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public
0:09.4	lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:18.2	Alright everybody, we have one that I know Mark and I have been particularly excited
0:22.9	about.
0:23.9	Now, excited is, it's a weird term to use for this because as you know, you clicked on
0:28.5	this episode, you saw the title, it probably had something to do with ticks and that's
0:32.4	not something that you really actually get excited about.
0:35.4	The idea of having the little things crawling all over you and potentially biting you
0:39.2	and there's a lot of confusion out there and not even necessarily confusion but just
0:45.5	worry and uncertainty around what could happen if you get bit by a tick, you know, with
0:51.1	Lyme's disease and you've got all this stuff with the Lone Star ticks for, you know, folks
0:55.6	in those areas and you've got the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, I mean all this stuff out
1:01.0	there, it can be a bit freaky and then the fact that like, they're hard to, they're hard
1:05.3	to tell.
1:06.3	You don't really know if you get bit by one, you don't know if they're crawling all over
1:08.6	you.
1:09.6	A lot of us are going to be out turkey hunting here this spring and do another stuff where
1:13.0	you're going to be literally saddled up into spots that ticks just love.
1:17.3	I mean, Austin ticks are seeking out the same spots essentially in order to hide from
1:22.3	these birds and hopefully shoot one and then yeah, it's, I don't know, we got ticks on
1:29.3	the brain right now for sure, just being that we're headed into spring.
1:31.9	No, definitely Jim.
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