Tick Disease Can Cause You To Be Allergic to Meat

[Lead Belly]

Ticks are vectors for many diseases-

Lone Star tick can be a vector of diseases including:

• Human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia chaffeensis) link Not very common in Texas
• Canine and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia ewingii) rare link
• Tularemia (Francisella tularensis) called “rabbit fever” or “deer fly fever” affects your lymph nodes- 300 cases in US/yr link
• STARI: Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI). STARI exhibits a rash similar Lyme disease, but is generally considered to be less severe. link

The meat allergy they can cause is called: Alpha-gal allergy

The bite of the lone star tick can cause a person to develop alpha-gal meat allergy, a delayed (3–8 hours) response to nonprimate mammalian meat and meat products. The allergy manifests as anaphylaxis—a life-threatening allergic reaction characterized by constriction of airways and a drop in blood pressure. Affected individuals are recommend avoiding food products containing beef, pork, lamb, venison, rabbit, and offal to avoid triggering an allergic reaction. Alpha-gal allergy has been reported in 17 countries on all six continents where humans are bitten by ticks, particularly the United States and Australia. link

Half of the doctors surveyed are unaware of this meat allergy disease. link

Lone Star tick:

 

[baboon]

Find a tick is never a good thing. Not having someone to find them and deal with it is even worse.

 

[mroper]

I had one of these on me last time I was in the Ozarks. I was more worried about the the other ticks that carry Lyme disease. Geez if I got that and was allergic to meat I would starve to death .

 

[Lead Belly]

Ticks would be a great method to spread something nefarious- like a meat allergy. Will have to wait for "data leak" in 20 years to find out.

• If vegetarianism was adopted by everyone by 2050, the world would have about seven million fewer deaths every year – and veganism would bring that up to eight million.

• Food-related emissions would drop by around 60%, according to Marco Springmann, a research fellow at the Oxford Martin School’s Future of Food programme. This would be down to getting rid of red meat – which come from methane-producing livestock – from people’s diets.

• However, farmers in the developing world could really suffer. Arid and semi-arid rangeland can only be used to raise animals, such as the Sahel land strip in Africa next to the Sahara; nomadic groups that keep livestock there would be forced to settle permanently and lose their cultural identities if there was no more meat.

• Repurposing former pastures into native habitats and forests would alleviate climate change and bring back lost biodiversity, including larger herbivores such as buffalo, and predators such as wolves, all of which were previously pushed out or killed in order to keep cattle.

 

[alternative]

Ticks would be a great method to spread something nefarious- like a meat allergy. Will have to wait for "data leak" in 20 years to find out.

• If vegetarianism was adopted by everyone by 2050, the world would have about seven million fewer deaths every year – and veganism would bring that up to eight million.

• Food-related emissions would drop by around 60%, according to Marco Springmann, a research fellow at the Oxford Martin School’s Future of Food programme. This would be down to getting rid of red meat – which come from methane-producing livestock – from people’s diets.

• However, farmers in the developing world could really suffer. Arid and semi-arid rangeland can only be used to raise animals, such as the Sahel land strip in Africa next to the Sahara; nomadic groups that keep livestock there would be forced to settle permanently and lose their cultural identities if there was no more meat.

• Repurposing former pastures into native habitats and forests would alleviate climate change and bring back lost biodiversity, including larger herbivores such as buffalo, and predators such as wolves, all of which were previously pushed out or killed in order to keep cattle.

How boring would that be. Hard but not impossible to get essential amino acids from plants but boring. To each his own.

 

[DoubleDuty]

I don't want that no desire to be a vegan

 

[Sasquatch]

Sounds like fish and poultry are still on the menu - just can't eat anything with nipples (does this mean someone afflicted with meat allergy cannot dine at the Y anymore? Or for the other-team, does this mean no more sausage & eggs?)

Might be worth keeping an epi-pen handy just to enjoy the delicious taste of beef and lamb anyway.

 

[DoubleDuty]

Sounds like fish and poultry are still on the menu - just can't eat anything with nipples (does this mean someone afflicted with meat allergy cannot dine at the Y anymore? Or for the other-team, does this mean no more sausage & eggs?)

Might be worth keeping an epi-pen handy just to enjoy the delicious taste of beef and lamb anyway.

That would suck even worse