Have you ever seen a tick on your child or fur baby and proceeded to freak out? Did you question whether you effectively removed the tick properly? Do you even know the most effective way to check your child for ticks, or the high-risk zones in your backyard? The answers may surprise you! 

Tick expert and fellow mom, Dr. Megan Linske is helping all of us parents learn how we can safely live with ticks -- because unfortunately, they aren't going away. She's a scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and specializes in monitoring tick abundances, tick testing for human pathogens, climate impacts on established and emerging tick populations, developing control strategies for ticks and tick-borne diseases and figuring out how we're going to handle these bloodsucking parasites now and going forward. 

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SHOW NOTES:

Host: Nicole Nalepa | @NicoleNalepaTV

Guest: Dr. Megan Linske

Websites: 
https://portal.ct.gov/caes/about-caes/staff-biographies/megan-a-linske
https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/ticks/index.html