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The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts-Including Us. Lone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome (www.newyorker.com)

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[–] protist@retrofed.com 16 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Who is this "they" you're referencing?

And what could you, a moron on the internet, discern from a genetic sequence? Which genetic sequence are you even talking about? This happens because alpha-gal occurs in the saliva of many different tick species, and injecting a tiny bit via tick bite is all it takes for some people to have that first allergic reaction. Are you suggesting "they" modified the genomes of ticks worldwide decades ago in order to elicit an allergic reaction in a vanishingly small number of people?