Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
Meat allergy? Unpleasant but ironically good for the environment.
After reading the article I hope they seek out and bite Donald Trump. Wouldn’t that be hilarious if this caused him a meat allergy?
He would starve from hamberder deficiency
He’d live way longer if he stopped eating McDonald’s
Yeah, Lyme Disease can potentially cause that. It’s weird they’re saying “meat allergy” and not lyme disease, but lyme is pretty bad and can cause lifelong complications (post-treatment lyme disease syndrome)
They don’t refer to it as Lyme because it’s a different issue. It just happens to also be spread by ticks. Lyme disease and Alpha-gal Syndrome are different things but are sometimes comorbities since both are commonly spread by ticks.
The lone star tick actually usually does not carry Lyme, you are thinking of deer ticks. This is an entirely different condition that is caused by an allergic reaction to the lone star ticks saliva which your body confuses with carbohydrates found in most mammalian meats leading to a long term meat allergy.
Maybe its Mother Nature way of making us stop consuming beef and all become vegan? I mean nature finds a way. The cattle industry is a huge contributor to climate change, so maybe this is a good thing.
Of course if this was to affect everyone, you see how quickly the government would fund a cure. Interesting novel idea…going give that a think.
As an act of revenge on the ticks, we will switch to insect protein.
It wouldnt be pushing people to veganism, considering there are plenty of animal products you could consume even if youre allergic to meat.
Also there are a lot more types of meat than beef. I eat meat often and hardly ever eat any beef
Also there are a lot more types of meat than beef.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_syndrome
The alpha-gal molecule is found in all mammals except catarrhines (apes and Old World monkeys), the taxonomic branch that includes humans.
Sounds like you could still eat fish, human and chicken (and other bird) meat as usual.
That why nature gave us birdflu. So take chicken off the menu as well. That just leaves apes and ourselves.
It’s like nature is telling us to switch to a seafood and the rich only diet.
Not, entirely correct. Alpha-gal syndrome is not a meat allergy. Gelatin, Glycerin and Magnesium stearate all contain high levels of it and are found in products as diverse as makeup, candy, shampoo, vape juice, energy drinks and toothpaste. High levels of alpha-gal are found in Milk and Milk products. All mammalian meat, organ meat, lipids and derived products. You check labels for the rest of your life if you have this and you’ll probably still come into contact with it out in the wild. You get Fish, Eggs and poultry. That’s only guaranteed if you buy the meat on its own, free from seasoning and cross-contamination. You don’t eat in a restaurant anymore, unless it’s sushi.
My wife has had to follow a low FODMAP and gluten free diet for the last 6ish years. It’s miserable and I wouldn’t wish such a vast allergy as this on anyone. I know there are plenty of haughty taughty vegans in this thread making jest, but these kinds of allergies fucking suck and I guarantee vegans consume shit that has these compounds without even realizing, since like you said, it exists in far more than just basic meat-based foods.
lyme is caused by deer ticks and its a bacterial spirochetes, theres actually a whole cult against chronic lyme which is a pseudoscientific belief thats incurable.
Not only the environment, the overall Americans health too. Each year, 700 000 Americans are dying from heart diseases.
heart diseases
There’s more than one? Is this like Second Breakfast?
It would be way easier to be a cardiologist if there were only one.
Well, the upside is less meat consumption is good for the environment I guess.
Funny, humanity contributing to the reduction of the climate crisis by increasing the number of ticks causing people to become allergic to meat, meaning less demand for meat, meaning less greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere as cattle becomes less profitable.
Life, uh, finds a way.
Vegans:
Honestly, I feel like this is a big fuck you from mother nature, telling us that our industrial farming practices, that are contributing so heavily to climate change, are now worth fuck all. And I am very much not a vegan.
You could join us before the ticks make you :)
I knew they were behind this.
Ticks can give you fuckers shitty diseases too, so hop off your soapbox buddy.
Yeah, but all ticks can do that. The “meat allergy ones” are a species that is only moving now because of climate change, which in no small part is also caused by emissions from factory farming.
Vegans are so damned annoying. They’re worse than the ticks.
Bruh, I see more meat-eaters following and actively commenting on vegan pages and forums than vegans being annoying lol
Go eat some carrion, you will fell better
The syndrome is not caused by a pathogen but spurs an allergy to a sugar molecule found in mammals and an array of other things, from toothpaste to medical equipment.
Lone star ticks are aggressive and can speedily follow a human target if they detect them. “They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,” said Sharon Pitcairn Forsyth, a conservationist who lives in the Washington DC area.
A particular horror is the prospect of brushing up against vegetation containing a massed ball of juvenile lone star ticks, know as a “tick bomb”, that can deliver thousands of tick bites. “They are so tiny you can’t see them but you have to take it seriously or you’ll never get them off you,” said Forsyth, who now carries around a lint roller to remove such clusters.
Many years ago my dog brought in a tic bomb, and got into bed with me. I awoke to my left arm and hand covered in so many sesema seed sized tics I could not even see my skin.
It took hours to get them off me and my dog.
I dodged a bullet cause I didn’t get any illnesses, nor did my dog.
I’m still freaked out though.
Why did I read this in bed
Straight nightmare fuel, Jesus Christ mate…
This happened to me once (with deer ticks, not lone star) while I was having a nice walk in the woods high on shrooms. Worst trip of my life.
😱 😱 😱 !
“They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,”
Well, that’s a horrifying image.
Don’t worry. The meat industry will find a cure fast
No crap. Republicans will be requiring vaccinations
My wife would be fucked unless this take out some preexisting allergies she has (quinoa, buckwheat, hazelnuts, peanuts, eggs and many legumes including soybeans although she doesn’t react to soy lecithin)
I have a soy allergy too and don’t react to lecithin. My understanding is that by the time the soy is processed into lecithin, the “thing” you’re allergic to is pretty much non-existent and that’s why you don’t react to it.
This isn’t the case for all people who are allergic to soy. This is not medical advice.
My dog is alergic to a crazy amount of things and eats hydrolyzed food which apparently changes the proteins enough to not react to it.
Thirding this. I develop a rash even after coming into contact with something that had soybean oil on it, but lecithin is safe (for me).
I think you can still eat chicken if you have that
Yeah afaik it’s only red meat
You can get concentrated permetherin, mix with water and apply with spray bottle to cotton clothes/socks. It bonds to the fiber and keeps the ticks off. Lasts several washes, longer if you don’t dry clothes with heat.
Much cheaper to buy the concentrate instead of the premix.
Spray outside, allow clothes to dry outside. Stuff is pretty much harmless to humans. When still wet or in concentrate, it is absolutely deadly to cats. After it has bonded to your clothes, it won’t hurt the cats. Doesn’t work if you apply it to your skin, the skin oils or something deactivate it.
Haven’t had a tick in years since I started using it.
The cows are delighted.
And the vegans
And my Ox.
Yeah we just need to proliferate wild guinea hens and other tick predators to knock their populations down. I’d rather the entire eastern US look like Kauai (random feral poultry) than have ticks take over.
Opossum are native, eat ticks and do not carry rabies. They are heros!
Maybe… but there were so many examples of disastrous consequences for introducing a non native species to control a pest (biological pest control), like thr cane toad in Australia, or ferrets in New Zealand, etc…
“When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death”
So when is the government going to deliver my local squadron of tick-squashing gorillas?
And so their task force begins…
One time I saw a lone star tick crawl into the headphone jack of my phone.
I tried everything I could think of to get it out, to no avail. Then I googled two things:
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What eats ticks?
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Guinea hen mating sounds
After fifteen seconds of guinea hen sounds, I watched the tick crawl out of my phone… and immediately disappear.
Oh buddy, you should have killed it. ☹️ Stomped it out. Not only is there the meat allergy thing, but idk, they can probably still carry Lyme Disease & that’s a real bitch.
I assume they would have, if it didn’t immediately disappear
The tick is now living outside of the environment.
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Our vegan super soldiers are unaffected.
Took us vegans a long time, but after hours in our labs we finally are ready to roll out our bio weapon.
Damn you, vegans! I’ll see you in hell!
Shakes fist angrily while collapsing from my simultaneous asphyxiation and heart failure.
Yes please! They have good music in hell. Also, in heaven there are only Christian Karens, pedophiles and antivax babies, you know how fucking annoying all those screaming babies are. And then complaining Karens on top of that.
And prion diseases.
