[laughs] What are some of the tick-borne illnesses that are most relevant to search and rescue teams? And how quickly can symptoms appear after exposure?

Okay.

So ticks are basically crawling bags of pathogens.

What they do is they're parasites, so they live exclusively on blood, and n- if there were no humans around, what they do is they take blood from wild animals and then bite another wild animal, take some blood from that.

But while they're taking blood, they get pathogens, and then when they bite another animal, they squirt back the pathogens from the first animal into it.

So they're sometimes called nature's dirty needle, and that's a pretty good description of what they do.

They move pathogens, disease-causing microbes from one animal to another.

One question that just popped up in my head, where are ticks most likely to be?