Discussion
Watching CBS Sunday Morning and David Pogue is covering the tick borne disease: Alpha GAL syndrome.
Carried by the Lone Star (ahem Texas) Tick.
This is the new symptoms of tick bites where you develop an allergy to meat products, even the smell of it will trigger a reaction.
Man these are interesting times.
And then they showed a larval tick bomb (where the Lone Star ticks just had babies) The underside of a big leaf of a tallish plant. It was quite the horror scene as the Entymologist identified a large number of Lone Star ticks in that tick bomb nursery for baby ticks.
@carpetbomberz there's a great Radiolab episode from about 10 years ago when it first started showing up.
Thanks Brian. I know they said in the piece that this has been around for a while back in the 2000s even.
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