Taught the youngsters some bugs 101 today! Thankful for the opportunity to talk about how cool bugs are with such enthusiastic kids :) 🐛🐝🐜🦋
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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 🤒😎
Always adding an extra hour to my hikes because you betcha I’m going to spend way too much time gawking at colorful little forest floor blobs along the way