How Ticks Transmit Diseases The Surprising Truth Revealed! #shorts

Name: How Ticks Transmit Diseases The Surprising Truth Revealed! #shorts
Uploaded: 2024-02-28T22:00:05+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Dr. Diane Mueller
Description: Short educational video (YouTube #shorts) by Dr. Diane Mueller explaining how ticks can transmit diseases. The speaker explains that ticks may attach to…

28 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Short educational video (YouTube #shorts) by Dr. Diane Mueller explaining how ticks can transmit diseases. The speaker explains that ticks may attach to one host, not fully feed, then fall off and attach to a second host; because many pathogens are transmitted late in the tick's feeding cycle, a tick that was already partially fed can transmit disease quickly to a subsequent host during that later-stage bite.

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Thought behind why this is happening is what we now realize is that when ticks, this is going to be a little gross. When ticks actually, like when they feed on us, they do not only have one feeding, meaning they could bite a human, they could attach to a human for a while, they could fall off and they could bite another human. And they tend to transmit late in their feeding cycle, meaning if they were already on one host and they didn't fully get fed, they could fall off, they could attach to another host, another human or an animal, and they could then deliver in a very short time window the disease to that second human, because that second human was bitten later in that feeding process.