A tale of two generations of Maritime tick science
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A tale of two generations of Maritime tick science

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 19, 202626 min
  • Documentary
  • Science
  • About Canada

Tuck your pants into your socks, people. That's the new Maritime fashion if you want to enjoy the wilderness without ticks these days. It's a world away from Vett Lloyd's bite, back in 2010, where authorities told the scientist there were no ticks in New Brunswick. That bite provoked Vett to become a leading scientist in the fight against ticks, and helped inspire a new wave of research being carried out today. Get up grossly close to the creepy crawlies with producer Myfanwy Davies in her documentary, More Voices In The Wilderness. <...

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This is a CBC Podcast. So this happens to be an adult blackleg tick, and that's what you would be calling a little thing. These little ticks are in ziplock bags, and they're in a lab at Mount Allison University.

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And once they feed on you for a while, they puff up, and that one's puffed up with blood. So much easier to see at the point where it starts out to be the size of a sesame seed and ends up being pea size. Yeah, you notice the pea.

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If you only notice the tick by the time it's been puffed up and feeding you for, on you for five days, seven days, you're going to need longer antibiotic treatment than the single dose you get at the pharmacy. But that's not the worst of it.

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