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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As one veteran tick expert at the CDC told me, if you want to make a dent in this problem, you have to get to the deer.
The deer are the engine driving a lot of these tech species spread.
We just have way more deer than we did decades ago, especially in the Eastern US and suburban parts of America.
So how do you get to the deer?
I had people in the comments section of my piece saying the clear answer is just we should all be hunting deer.
But in talking to the experts, they'll tell you it's not really a feasible solution.
You would have to knock deer populations way down to make a dent in the tick populations.
What is more promising is a combined approach of stuff like vaccines.
There are people developing vaccines that you could deliver to deer or to rodents, which are another important host for these ticks, so that when the tick bites them, they'll die.
That I learned from talking to folks who do this research for a living,
is a more promising avenue for controlling ticks than all of us picking up crossbows and becoming deer hunters.
You know, what I heard from experts is that we're not even funding this research in a serious way.
You know, we do this stuff for mosquitoes.
People don't realize it, but like your local county health agency
They go out and they find where the mosquito breeding grounds are and stagnant pools of water and they treat it.
And it takes a sustained quiet effort.
It's like we saw the consequences of not,
Doing that recently, you know, this is a bit tangential, but screwworm, you know, screwworm was this flesh-eating larval pest that devastates cattle herds.
And it was eradicated in the U.S.
in 1966, and it was kept at bay by...
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