Little summer vampires

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🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Tiny blood-sucking Lyme-disease-carrying ticks are out to ruin your summer. Since 1991, Lyme disease has doubled in the United States due to a variety of factors, including global warming and suburbanization. Vox’s Julia Belluz explains how to avoid ticks and, if worse comes to worst, deal with Lyme disease. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.0	So Sean, it's summer, so do you have any plans yet?
0:23.8	Well, I hear there's lots of like beautiful wilderness
0:25.8	around DC, the Shenandoah Valley and stuff,
0:28.0	so I'm gonna hope I get out and go camping,
0:29.3	but nothing written in stone yet, why you ask?
0:31.8	Well, I have bad news for you.
0:37.6	You might want to keep an eye out for these little,
0:42.6	tiny little vampires.
0:46.6	They're little blood sucking creatures.
0:49.8	They can't fly, they can't jump,
0:51.7	they kind of work in tall grass or leafy areas.
0:56.6	And they have little heat sensors.
1:03.3	They can smell your, sense your heat.
1:06.1	And then they crawl up on you.
1:09.0	They have a little barbed mouth that they shove right through
1:14.0	into your skin and they start to suck your blood
1:16.3	really, really slowly.
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