LoneStar Tick Arises?

[Great Old Man]

 

Is it True?

In Korea, there are also several victims who get serious allergy to red meat after tick biting.

[XenoFish]

I knew veganism was an illness.

[spartan max2]

If it is true then it was created in a lab by PETA lol

[Gromdor]

It seems to be a real thing.  It is still fairly rare.  But it is sounding like tick bites are causing an auto-immune allergy reaction when eating red meat.  Kinda sucks that you can't eat steak or a burger or you might go in to anaphylactic shock and die because you got bit by a tick. 

[rashore]

Alpha-gal syndrome...

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Alpha-gal syndrome is a recently identified type of food allergy to red meat. In the United States, the condition most often begins when a Lone Star tick bite transmits a sugar molecule called alpha-gal into the body. In some people, this triggers an immune system reaction that later produces mild to severe allergic reactions when they eat red meat.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alpha-gal-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20428608

[XenoFish]

7 minutes ago, spartan max2 said:

If it is true then it was created in a lab by PETA lol

That would be giving PETA too much credit.

[Gromdor]

The conspiracy theorist in me could see a more terroristic version of peta (or militant Hindus)  producing Alpha-gal and secretly administering it to the population to render them unable to eat red meat.

[aztek]

thousands of people in a country of 330mil is nothing, i think there are more people having panic attacks from seeing a clown than red meat allergy, 

[Guest]

I don't know about red meat, but I got STARI from a tick bite.  Put me in the hospital for a week.  Avoid ticks if you can.

Doug

[Farmer77]

Im still not convinced Ticks arent genetically engineered bioweapons. It seems every side effect their bite offers is perfectly designed to demoralize a fighting force.

 

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

Mother Nature ain’t havin’ it no more I see.

[aztek]

i think we always had such ticks and diseases , we just did not attribute them to ticks before, my friend got lime disease from a tick, while camping, but he does not remember being bitten, never seen a tick, and there was no red circle, a tell tale sign of a infected tick, he want to a doctor after feeling ill for weeks, and blood test showed it was lime disease.  without blood test he'd never know it was a tick.  

Edited September 18, 2019 by aztek