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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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[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

I lived in an area affected by alpha gal ticks. I personally knew several people affected by it. There is nothing nice about this.