Hannah Chin
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696 appearances
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 17 Aug
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It's not just the western fence lizard.
Other small reptiles, like the eastern fence lizard and the southern alligator lizard, they also have this Lyme-killing blood.
There's a white-tailed deer, too, and I know some rabbits can adapt after multiple tick bites.
to cleanse ticks of Lyme.
I thought the same thing, too.
Yeah.
But I talked to Andrea, and she said when she was in grad school in California, she did this experiment where her team removed the western fence lizards from an area just to see what would happen.
Why?
I was confused about this too, but it actually does make sense.
Yeah.
In other words, one of the biggest functions of these lizards is being a meal for these ticks to thrive and stay alive and then mate.
And detoxing the text blood of this Lyme carrying bacteria is kind of a smaller function.
Probably not.
Not, unfortunately.
Just because protein works in lizards doesn't necessarily mean it'll work for us humans.
But there is good news.
What if I told you that scientists are working on a vaccine that could train our immune systems to kill ticks?
So Adela Oliva Chavez, she's the medical entomologist, she's working on something like this.
It's called an anti-tick vaccine, and it hinges on this key fact that ticks are really slow feeders.
And so Adela and her colleagues thought, all right, what if we could just get the immune system to recognize and attack the tick instead of being reduced?
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