Hmmm, perhaps just part of another sales campaign?
Posted on 08/09/2014 7:40:55 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
A bug can turn you into a vegetarian, or at least make you swear off red meat. Doctors across the nation are seeing a surge of sudden meat allergies in people bitten by a certain kind of tick.
This bizarre problem was only discovered a few years ago but is growing as the ticks spread from the Southwest and the East to more parts of the United States. In some cases, eating a burger or a steak has landed people in the hospital with severe allergic reactions.
Few patients seem aware of the risk, and even doctors are slow to recognize it. As one allergist who has seen 200 cases on New York's Long Island said, "Why would someone think they're allergic to meat when they've been eating it their whole life?"
The culprit is the Lone Star tick, named for Texas, a state famous for meaty barbecues. The tick is now found throughout the South and the eastern half of the United States.
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When I was a kid in central Pennsylvania I played in the woods all the time and never once remember a tick. Now in Missouri all you have to do is walk under a tree and they drop on you.
Probably find that like lyme, the tick is transported by some animal historically managed by human hunting but no longer under such management due to 40 years of liberal anti-hunting pressure.
Is “BACON” meat?
I think pork is the “other” white meat.
Given the price of beef, I just might have to seek one of those buggers out.
I’m here in MO too. My area is tick infested. When I went into the woods in IL and WI 80s and 90s, never had a tick. I’m sure in WI they were there, but not in numbers.
Something has happened the last 10 years. Ticks seem to be exploding in numbers and their disease carrying ability has mutated. A Phd in FL has hypothesized that the Lone Star tick (which is common in MO) may now be carrying a disease that mimics Lyme. It might be what I have or maybe I have Lyme.
Had to go out of state for treatment because Docs here in MO say “we don’t have lyme in MO”. Sure, lyme ticks respect borders and travel only where they are supposed to go according to the CDC.
“Urban legend?”
Nope. It’s actually happening.
I bet these ticks are being bioengineered by the God forsaken veggie brains and gaia worshippers! PETA (not the people eating tasty animals, the other one)must be stopped.
Tick Allergy bump for later.....
Politics...from 'poly', meaning 'many'; and 'tick', a 'blood-sucking parasite'.
The stuff IS great for bugs, but be careful. Permethrin is highly toxic to cats.
I have a creek bed bordering my backyard with large trees and even with spraying and fogging I still get one now and then on me or the dogs. Go for a walk in the Busch wildlife area and you most likely will get one.
Now all we need is for PETA or some group to tinker with DNA and breed ticks that cause allergies to all meat so they can force us to be vegetarians.
I know woman that has this allergy now. On the plus side, she has lost a fair amount of weight.
I think it is because our winters are now normally warmer. When I was a kid in the St. Louis area we had ice on the ponds for a month or 2. Now we are lucky if we have ice for a week or two.
I can’t say if allergies follow tick bites. There are, however, biological controls you can spray on your wet lawn to control Ticks. (Beneficial Nematodes—not the ones that infest your garden.) From:
http://www.ehow.com/facts_7706041_nematodes-ticks.html?ref=Track2&utm_source=ask
“Several species of nematodes, or microscopic roundworms, infect ticks. Steinernema nematodes infect ticks by crawling into an adult tick’s breathing holes, mouth, anus or genital pore. Heterorhabditis uses a sharp tooth to puncture the tick’s hard outer shell.”
“Death”
“Nematodes carry a Xenorhabdus bacteria that turns the tick’s inner tissues into a liquid that nematodes can then feed off. An infection of less than 50 nematodes can kill an adult tick within a day. After the adult tick dies and nematodes consume the liquefied insides, nematodes reproduce and leave the dead tick in search of a new host....”
For more info:
There; a pleasant circle of life thing that works in favor of humans. Nematodes can also be used to control lawn grubs, mole crickets, fleas, and cockroaches without harming earthworms.
Just do a search under: “ticks, nematodes” (I don’t sell them, I do not represent any company that does. Have used them in my garden. Result was reduction in grubs at the time it was next tilled.)
Have you tried Talenti Southern Butter Pecan? It is to die for.
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