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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What does meat allergy have to do with ticks?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Not the person you're replying to but you can get Alpha-gal Syndrome (causing potentially deadly allergies to red meat) from the lone star tick so I can see why it would be a natural follow up question to this discussion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh okay, that's my bad then. I had never heard of that before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

All good I just figured you didn't know by your response so I thought I'd share if not just because it's interesting (and scary as hell).