{"id":7280,"date":"2025-04-30T18:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/?p=7280"},"modified":"2025-04-30T18:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:38:56","slug":"once-bitten-animals-develop-resistance-that-shrinks-tick-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/linkki\/7280","title":{"rendered":"<svg class=\"svg-icon svg-icon-link\" aria-labelledby=\"title-69d832ef4215f\" role=\"img\"><title id=\"title-69d832ef4215f\">Link<\/title> <use href=\"#link\" xlink:href=\"#link\"><\/use> <\/svg>7280"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Confusingly, the article doesn&#8217;t elaborate on how a resistance against what&#8217;s effectively a physical attack can possibly work, but apparently it&#8217;s mainly a resistance against the many bioactive substances that ticks need to inject into the host in order to feed successfully, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/immunology\/articles\/10.3389\/fimmu.2020.601504\/full#:~:text=to%20counteract%20these%2C%20host%20animals%20activate%20various%20defense%20pathways%2C%20including%20innate%20and%20acquired%20immunity%20against%20tick%20infestation.\">according to another paper from 2020<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-04-bitten-animals-resistance-population.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Once bitten, animals develop resistance that shrinks tick population\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/04\/once-bitten-animals-de-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x999 size-150x999\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/04\/once-bitten-animals-de-scaled.jpg 2269w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/04\/once-bitten-animals-de-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/04\/once-bitten-animals-de-908x1024.jpg 908w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/04\/once-bitten-animals-de-768x866.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/04\/once-bitten-animals-de-1362x1536.jpg 1362w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/04\/once-bitten-animals-de-1815x2048.jpg 1815w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/04\/once-bitten-animals-de-1600x1805.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Once bitten, animals develop resistance that shrinks tick population<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">[Researchers] at Washington State University found that once host animals were exposed to ticks, they developed resistance to bites that dramatically shrank the tick population going forward.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Confusingly, the article doesn&#8217;t elaborate on how a resistance against what&#8217;s effectively a physical attack can possibly work, but apparently it&#8217;s mainly a resistance against the many bioactive substances that ticks need to inject into the host in order to feed successfully, according to another paper from 2020.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14097],"tags":[28603,32513,32516,32514,30418,32515,30487,30776],"class_list":["post-7280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-in-english","tag-ecology","tag-immunology","tag-jeb-owen","tag-ticks-and-tick-borne-diseases","tag-united-states-department-of-agriculture","tag-university-of-idaho","tag-veterinary-medicine","tag-washington-state-university","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7282,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions\/7282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}