Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
Well, the upside is less meat consumption is good for the environment I guess.
I see the vegans are escalating their tactics.
The condition, known as alpha-gal syndrome, has proliferated from just a few dozen known cases in 2009 to as many as 450,000 now.
Alpha-gal (galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose) is a sugar molecule found in the cells of all mammals except humans and some primatesWell, at least we can still eat each other, it seems. The rich be lookin’ mighty tasty as of late…
If it were up to me, eating the rich would be considered vegan
Well, they have no soul, no emotion, are not human, and seem to feel no pain.
Dig in.
Forget the alpha male; this is the year of alpha-gal.
We’ll convert the bloodmouths, one way or another! The next plan is mosquitoes that make you allergic to cheese.
Jokes aside does it impact the love of dairy and eggs too?
Dairy, but not eggs. Sufferers can still eat chicken and fish.
And humans and some other primates.
Thank god. I just discovered the magic that is pickled eggs and I refuse to give them up.
Funny, humanity contributing to the reduction of the climate crisis by increasing the number of ticks causing people to become allergic to meat, meaning less demand for meat, meaning less greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere as cattle becomes less profitable.
Life, uh, finds a way.
Don’t worry. The meat industry will find a cure fast
No crap. Republicans will be requiring vaccinations
“to areas previously too cold”, huh… i wonder what happened…
The planet keeps {Chinese hoax}'ing.
One time I saw a lone star tick crawl into the headphone jack of my phone.
I tried everything I could think of to get it out, to no avail. Then I googled two things:
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What eats ticks?
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Guinea hen mating sounds
After fifteen seconds of guinea hen sounds, I watched the tick crawl out of my phone… and immediately disappear.
Oh buddy, you should have killed it. ☹️ Stomped it out. Not only is there the meat allergy thing, but idk, they can probably still carry Lyme Disease & that’s a real bitch.
Do you have experience with ticks? You can’t stomp them. They’re too small and flat with hard shells and don’t squish. They have to be cut in half, burned, or drowned. Some people can kill them with their fingernails, but mine are too short.
I found two of them on my body later that night and killed them with tweezers. Or fire, I don’t remember which.
Also, deer ticks carry Lyme disease, not lone star ticks.
I assume they would have, if it didn’t immediately disappear
The tick is now living outside of the environment.
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I know in Arkansas a ton of people have been getting this. I knew a guy that lost nearly 100 pounds after getting it. His diet really changes.
Its all natural Ozempic!
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it can be treated with great success using Chinese medicine.
lol
What’s the treatment?
Several practitioners are having a lot of success testing it as an allergy, which it is. Mods deleted my commment but look it up, I have a family member who practices Chinese medicine and acupuncture in the US and treats people will alpha gal all the time.
My cousin got acupuncture treatments for alpha gal a couple of months ago. She went out for a steak after her last session and wound up in the hospital.
Im sorry to hear that, it’s not a one and done thing, it requires several treatments and a strict avoidance of mammal protein during the treatment. You have to east back into it slowly.
Those naughty mods.
Gaia hits back.
Every time I go hiking with my dog I pull one of these little bastards off his fur. I cover him in permethrin, as well as every inch of my clothing, shoes and hat, so I’m not SUPER stressed about it, but it’s still annoying. A couple days ago I found one in his tail floof (he’s a golden so it’s a giant poof.) The tick was near dead already by the time I got it untangled from his fur thanks to the permethrin though. Usually I spot the ticks on him either because they’re on his head (where they’re easy to spot immediately), or because they got tangled in his fur and couldn’t jump off. I’ve never once seen one bite him thankfully.
It’s wild to me because I have only seen other kinds of ticks twice so far this season, but otherwise it’s all lone star ticks, which are not supposed to be the most common where I am. They’re definitely more prominent this year though. Of all the tick diseases, alpha-gal terrifies me the most, so I’m not thrilled by this increase in lone stars.
Nature will always win.
Yep, don’t fuck with nature.
The cows are delighted.
And the vegans
And my Ox.
And so their task force begins…
Meat production is a major contributor to climate change. This is almost as if nature is acting in self defense.
Payback for turning the frogs gay
I am hoping to take a vaccine that can kill them dead, or least take care of their parasites. As a guy who likes steaks, hot dogs, and juicy burgers, these ticks are abominations.
Oh, and the Wall of Flesh that prevents screwflys from spreading through the neck of Panama has started to fail. You and your pets will likely have your flesh being eaten.
What a wonderful time to live on the American continent. 🤕
Don’t worry, if someone tries to make that a reality RFK will just say that it’s a nanochip tracking super austism biological weapon shot that kills you a year later and nuke the program.
