Hannah Chin
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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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But Gina, scientists know that ticks are on the move.
So tick country, and by association, Lyme country, is expanding.
So today on the show, we're doing a tick check, shortwave style.
We're taking a long, hard look at ticks, what we know about them, what helps them thrive, and how they acquire and spread Lyme disease.
Okay, Gina, so we're going to start with like tick 101.
Get ready to be a little bit grossed out.
I love school.
Let's do it.
To start, these arachnids have four stages of development.
Egg, larva, nymph, and adult.
After they hatch, they need to have blood meals at every single stage in order to survive.
Exactly.
And there's only two kinds of ticks that carry Lyme in the U.S.
There's the black-legged tick, or deer tick, and the western black-legged tick.
And to be clear, these ticks aren't born with Lyme.
They only get infected when they feed on an infected animal, like a bunny or a bird or a deer or a human.
Okay.
And I asked Adela Oliva Chavez about this process.
She's a medical entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Exactly.
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