Not many deer ticks here in MO. Plenty of Lone Star and a gazillion seed ticks aka baby ticks. I got this from Lone Star but got it in FL cleaning up the mo-in-law’s 5 acres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy
Allergy to mammalian meat. It starts to wane after a couple of years but then if I get another lone star bite, it’s apt to come back. It’s the only known delayed food allergy. 4-8 hours after eating. The leaner the meat, the less it affects me which is part of the reason I got meat goats. Took me a while to figure out what it was back in FL. Finally made the correlational to ribeye night. I’ll wake up at 2am with the hives, take a benadryl and scratch for an hour and it goes away. Wipes me out for the next day though. Had some ham once from a heritage breed of pig and it set me into anaphylactic shock.
I’ve had burgers, pork ribs, corned beef set me off and of course ribeye or other fatty cut. I stay out of the woods during warm weather now and run a band of Sevin granules around the house/shop area every Spring. I’ve got it pretty mild. I guess some people can go into anaphylactic if they eat a piece of chicken that was cooked on the same grill/griddle that was used for mammalian meat.
It’s mainly found in the SE US and I thought I would be just outside the prevalent area here in MO but the area expanded. They have it in AUS and discovered it about the same time a doctor from a Virginia university did here.
I use Sawyers Permethrin Spray on my clothes when it’s tick season and I wear light colored clothes so as to see any better.
I have ordered some nematodes from Arbico that are supposed to help with deer tick control. We’ll see how that goes. I understand that Guinea hens are virtual tick vacuums, but they are noisy and I am not yet ready to be tied down by animals.
I like to travel when I want with a minimum of interference. Every spring I have seedlings to manage, and that’s enough hauling them around if we’re going to be out of town for more than a day or two.
I know a guy who developed this after being bitten by a Lone Star tick.
Rather unfortunate because he was on vacation down South and it wouldn’t have happened otherwise.