Sean Rameswaram
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7,113 appearances
119 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 9 Sep
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And the most familiar one, of course, is Lyme disease.
Each year, about half a million people are treated for Lyme disease.
It's the fastest-growing vector-borne disease in the US.
Cases have more than doubled over the past decade.
And those cases are mostly as a result of getting bitten by the black-legged tick or the deer tick.
And the thing is, both of these ticks and many other ticks that are also marching northward and westward and just expanding their empires rapidly across North America, they can deliver all kinds of pathogens.
They're claiming more and more of the map and they're claiming more and more of our psychic map, right?
It's like one of the results of reporting this piece is that I now have like phantom tick crawling sensations at all hours of the day.
Oh man.
You know, it's like I've,
I tell people I'm not a tick expert, although I talked to a bunch of them for this story, but I've become a tick expert in the sense that I am very familiar with tick paranoia and how it can keep you from venturing out into the places you love, you know, hiking paths or picnic grounds or parks.
And so that was part of the story I wanted to write about too, is why are we letting the ticks
keep us, if not out of these places that we need and love, why aren't we fighting back?
And why is it?
Are we not fighting back against the ticks?
Not really.
I mean, this is one of the surprising takeaways from my reporting is that
We're barely even trying.
And one way of understanding that, you can think about two numbers.
So one number is 90%.
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