Luke Kanies @lkanies@hachyderm.io
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A sister of mine died after basically starving for two years because doctors could not figure out what was wrong.

These ticks are everywhere in the South already. But in the hospital she died in (in the south), no one had any real idea how to treat it.

This disease is super weird:
- it’s a tick-borne allergy
- it’s the only known allergy to a carbohydrate, *not* a protein (so hydrolyzation, which is a standard allergy treatment, does not help)
- the carbohydrate (usually called alpha gal) is in all non-primate mammal products, including milk

It’s obviously bad for multiple reasons. But it’s also going to be very hard to diagnose for a lot of people.
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Koen Hufkens, PhD (@koen_hufkens@mastodon.social)

"It seems like an oddity now but we could end up with millions of people with an allergy to meat.” Negative climate change feedback loop you did not have on your bingo card. The lone star tick forcing people to be vegetarian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/lone-star-ticks-increase-climate-crisis #climatechange #climatecrisis #tick

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