Hannah Chin
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696 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 17 Aug
Hannah Chin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm Hannah Shin.
So today I want to start our episode with a mystery.
Ooh.
It starts the way a lot of old mysteries start, with a group of kids in a tiny town in the middle of the wood.
This is actually terrifying.
Like, where did these kids live?
All these kids lived in Connecticut, around a little place called Lyme.
And as public health officials investigated, they started to trace it back to the woods.
They were like, OK, there's some kind of illness.
We don't know what it is.
Maybe it's an insect or a virus or a bacteria or something.
But we know it's coming from the forest.
This is Andrea Sway.
She's a disease and vector ecologist at San Francisco State University.
And she says this bacterium had probably been around for a while, maybe even millennia.
This was just the first time that we noticed it and, like, had the tools to track it down.
And nowadays, Connecticut is still a hotspot for Lyme disease.
In fact, if you look at a map of Lyme cases, I actually looked at the CDC's just now, the vast majority of them, like more than 95%, are in the Great Lakes area and the northeastern U.S.,
Yeah, exactly.
And historically, that's what we think of as tick country, right?
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