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Speaking of Lyme disease .. this other tick-borne illness seems pretty nasty. Maybe I’ve been under a rock, but hadn’t heard of it till yesterday. The alpha-gal syndrome (allergy to red meat and any derivative) sounds like another way the planet is trying to purge humans.
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“Researchers have linked the death of a 47-year-old man in New Jersey to alpha-gal syndrome, which usually starts with a bite from a lone star tick. The man died four hours after eating a hamburger. NBC News’ Anne Thompson.” #ISOGG #epigenetics #AlphaGal #tick #allergy #AlphaGalSyndrome #meatallergy #lonestartick #geneadons
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Meat allergy from tick bites is on the rise—and US doctors are in the dark - Enlarge / A vector ecologist displays a vial of live lone star ticks. (... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1957268 #alpha-galsyndrome #infectiousdisease #lonestartick #meatallergy #science #allergy #health #ticks #meat #cdc