Sean Rameswaram

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Today, Explained · Our tick nightmare · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

I'm John Feiner.

And I'm Jake Sullivan.

And we're the hosts of The Long Game, a weekly national security podcast.

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Sean Romstrom, Today Explained covered ticks and Lyme disease on the show way back in 2018, when the word on the trail was that this was getting much worse.

We asked science writer Jonathan Mingle, who recently wrote about ticks for the New York Times newspaper, how much worse this has gotten since then.

You know, some experts I talk to use the word exponential.

I mean, so what's happening is that

Some of these tick species are spreading into areas where people aren't familiar with them, doctors aren't familiar with them.

In the last 15 years, the Lone Star tick has gone from non-existent on the island to fully abundant and everywhere.

thanks to warmer winters, climate change, ticks are expanding their hunting season.

You know, you may have a day that's like 40 degrees in January, ticks are out looking for you, waiting for you to walk by and grab on and grab a meal.

So in 2024, a pilot named Brian Waitzel, father of three in northern New Jersey, he had a hamburger.

had a barbecue, went home to mow his lawn, and a few hours later was unresponsive on the floor, and he died that night.

And his family was left in shock, of course, trying to figure out why he had died.

And it turned out that he had likely been bitten by the Lone Star tick and had developed an allergy to red meat.

And so this is referred to as alpha-gal syndrome.

And alpha-gal syndrome is just the latest entrant into the files of all the many ways in which tick bites can make us sick.

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