Ticks: little bugs, with big appetites for your blood. They won’t bleed you dry, but it’s what they leave behind that hurts. For this two-part episode of the Sci’More Podcast, Phil and Chris interviewed three tick and tick-borne disease experts to get the scoop on tick safety, Lyme disease, and Alpha-gal syndrome, in which a tick bite can cause a red meat allergy.

Our guests this episode (part 1 and 2):

Nicole Foley: [email protected]

Nicole Baumgarth: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/4363/nicole-baumgarth

Onyi Iweala: https://iwealalab.web.unc.edu/

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Links and Resources

NEVBD (Tick resources for the Northeast US): https://www.neregionalvectorcenter.com/ticks

University of Rhode Island Tick Encounter: https://web.uri.edu/tickencounter/

University of Maryland Mail-In Tick Identification service: https://health.maryland.gov/phpa/OIDEOR/CZVBD/Pages/Tick-Identification.aspx

NYS Tick-Blitz: https://www.neregionalvectorcenter.com/new-york-state-tick-blitz.php

CDC on Tick-borne relapsing fever: https://www.cdc.gov/relapsing-fever/index.html

CDC on Lyme Disease: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/index.html

Todar’s Online Textbook of Bacteriology on Lyme disease: http://textbookofbacteriology.net/Lyme.html

CDC on Alpha-gal syndrome: https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/alpha-gal/index.html

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Credits

Music: ‘Lucky Massive Dangerous’ by Speck

Editing: Philip Danziger

Intro & Outro: Philip Danziger

Interviewers: Philip Danziger and Christopher An

With help from other members of the Sci’more Podcast team!