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Meat allergy from tick bites is on the rise—and US doctors are in the dark (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tick born diseases can be the weirdest and scariest shit. I

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ticks in general are weird, interesting, and also terrifying

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yup and the microorganisms that call them home are all kinds of weird too. Babeiosis is a lot like malaria in that its a microscopic eukaryote with really wacky parasite genetics because a long time ago its ancestors were probably just free-living little fellas, so their genomes are tiny and very silly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Totes, I got babiosis, lyme, and alpha gal allergies from ticks and now I'm paranoid about them.