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Podcast: Tick Boot Camp
Episode: Powering Through Lyme - an interview with Ava Passarelli and Liza Blas
Description: Ava Passarelli is a 15-year-old young woman from Chicago, Illinois. Ava lives with her dynamic mother Liza Blas, her father, and her younger brother. Prior to attending high school, Ava attending a sleep away camp in Minnesota where she suffered multiple tick bites over two summer seasons. The summer camp officials did not notify Ava’s parents of the tick bites, nor did they provide Ava with prophylactic medical treatment. Ava’s parents discovered that Ava was bitten by a tick after they received a letter from their daughter 10 days after one tick bite incident. Shortly after returning home from...