Ping
Time to release a few hundred guineas in the park.
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.