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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90% of vector-borne disease cases in the US are from ticks, right?
90%.
Yeah.
And yet, despite the fact that 90% of cases of vector-borne illness come from tick bites, if you look at what local, city, county health agencies do in terms of vector control...
80% of what they do is mosquito control and about 10 or 11% these local health agencies around the country do any kind of tick control.
So why is that?
You know, it's a familiar story in the public health world.
It's not enough funding or policy support for trying out, testing, deploying new approaches to controlling ticks.
Even though people are dying?
We're just kind of
taking for granted that, oh, well, what can you do?
You just tuck your pants in and spray some insecticide on your boots and that's all you can do.
It's like, well, actually we have a long history of going to war with mosquitoes.
Before there was tick control, there was mosquito control and the CDC was founded with the sole mandate in 1946.
of wiping out malaria and fighting mosquitoes.
I did not know that.
Yeah, I didn't know it either.
It feels like they lost that fight because in my neighborhood, you can't go out between the hours of 7 and 9 o'clock.
Yeah, the mosquitoes haven't gone away, but malaria did for the most part.
You know, in talking to experts today, they told me that, including folks at the CDC, like there's a suite of tools we could be using if we wanted to get serious about fighting ticks.
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