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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

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

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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

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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago
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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, attacks a way of life.
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      You’re basing this on what? It’s bad, therefore it must be a conspiracy?

      It’s likely it existed for generations, but the cause was matched to the effect for the first time in 2002. There had been clear outbreaks prior to that where there had been no cause identified.

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        The account being only a day old checks out.

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          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?

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          https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genome/GCA_030143305.2/

          Ok here. What exactly are you able to do with this?

          Edit: and before we get ahead of ourselves and claim “ah-ha! 2024, gotcha globalists!” Here’s more information from 2016

          https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4898797/

          And another from 2006

          https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16859107/

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      You forgot your (((scary parenthesis))).

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