Taught the youngsters some bugs 101 today! Thankful for the opportunity to talk about how cool bugs are with such enthusiastic kids :) ๐๐๐๐ฆ
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I wrote this review on Rickettsia amblyommatis while infected with a species of Rickettsia! I know first hand how much ticks suck and how important an understanding of the spotted fever group Rickettsioses are for diagnosis
https://t.co/gDQJsXMIOx
A couple of weeks ago we had an icebreaker during my graduate seminar and the question was "What is your irrational fear?" My answer was "hammerhead sharks". And today in class I walked in and saw this:
The ticks finally got their revenge on me. This tick scientist has Rocky Mountain spotted fever and I've never been sicker! It's been a rough few weeks and will probably take a bit longer to fully recover. But I'm sure one day this will be a cool story ๐ค๐
Always adding an extra hour to my hikes because you betcha Iโm going to spend way too much time gawking at colorful little forest floor blobs along the way