Selects: The Skinny on Lyme Disease

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 4 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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If you live in the Northeastern U.S. then you may know someone who has had Lyme disease. But it's spreading all over the country and parts of the world. Learn all about this tick-borne disease in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.0	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.0	Hey guys, it's Josh, Josh Clark.
0:08.0	No, not the Josh Clark you went to high school with.
0:11.0	Sorry to get your hopes up like that.
0:13.0	This is Josh Clark from that podcast you listen to.
0:15.0	Stuff you should know.
0:17.0	And for this week's SYSK Select, I've chosen our September 2019 episode on Lyme disease.
0:22.6	This one's pretty fascinating because it turns out Lyme disease has a ton of intrigue associated with it.
0:28.6	It started out with a cluster of weird symptoms of people in Connecticut,
0:32.6	and then they finally figured out it was coming from ticks.
0:35.6	But the mystery wasn't over because people started developing chronic Lyme.
0:39.9	And at first, the medical community didn't believe they had any disease whatsoever.
0:44.5	They thought it was all in their heads.
0:46.3	Well, they were wrong.
0:47.2	You can find out about all this and more in this episode on Lyme disease.
0:52.8	Enjoy.
1:02.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
1:10.8	Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.
1:13.7	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry over there.
1:15.7	This is stuff you should know.
1:18.8	The podcast.
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