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Change comes to Kowloon, and how to avoid Lyme disease
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This is the Radio Boston rundown for April 5. Tiziana Dearing is our host.
- Spring is finally here. But there's always something, and with warmer weather, one of those somethings is ticks. Cases of Lyme disease have more than doubled in the last thirty years. Today, about 300,000-400,000 people get infected with the tick-borne illness each year – most of them here in the Northeast. We speak with Dr. Sam Donta, a retired University of Connecticut Professor of Medicine and Infectious Disease and Boston Medical Center clinician specializing in Lyme disease research, and Tom Keane, a former Boston City Councilor and a freelance writer who recently found out the hard way that some signs of Lyme disease can be easily missed.
- In its hay day, neon and flashing signs peppered Route 1 and people drove from around the region to dine, drink, and be entertained along the strip. Part of that culture was Kowloon restaurant. For decades, it was the spot for good food and scorpion bowls. But now, the karaoke hub is changing alongside the road it calls home. We talk about the future of Kowloon Restaurant and the stretch of Route 1 in Saugus with Bobby Wong, co-owner of Kowloon, and Grant Welker, projects reporter with the Boston Business Journal.
- Horseshoe crabs' unique blue blood has long been important for testing the safety of medicines – and the industry surrounding their valuable blood has taken on new significance amidst the race for coronavirus vaccines and booster shots. It's a fascinating story, and we wanted to revisit a conversation we had with the guy who wrote the book on them: Ipswich-based science writer Bill Sargent, author of "Crab Wars: A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Ecology, and Human Health."
This program aired on April 5, 2022.