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Nope, Doctors in VA figured out it’s the Lone Star tick here. Doctors in AUS around the same time figured out it was some tick native to there. I can attest to the Lone Star being the SE US tick because I’ve had this allergy for 20 years since shorty after the Doctors in VA discovered it. One of them had it which is why they started researching it.

I did a bunch of clean up on my Mo-in-laws wooded rural property in North Florida. Got a lot of tick bites. A few weeks later I started waking up with the hives at 1-2am. Never had them or an allergy in my life. We bought new sheets, tried swapping laundry detergent. I read about food allergies but all were 15 minute or less reactions. Searched for delayed food allergies and found the VA doctors recent discovery. Sure enough, it was ribeye night which we did every couple of weeks. Quit that and no reactions, until I ate a burger one night. Later on, it was ribs.

I’m in MO now and there are seed ticks, dog ticks and Lone Star. If I get bit by a Lone Star big enough to have a spot, I have to go into desensitization mode. The VA doctors have noticed it seems to dissipate over time for most people.

Last year I found that the tick borne allergy has been discovered in Turkey and doctors there tried a desensitization program with good results. They started with a tiny amount of pure beef extract(beef boiled in water), doubled it every day and swapped to actual beef at some point, doubling that every day. There were only two patients and each had one allergic reaction so they backed off one day and then continued the double every day program until both patients could eat 200 mg safely and let the patients go from there.

They don’t eat pork there and I think beef is bigger than goat there so being able to eat beef was important to those two patients.

Worst reaction I ever had that was way past the hives and into anaphylactic shock, was here in MO when a neighbor gave us some homemade ham. It was very dark so I’m pretty sure it was from a heritage breed of pig and not “the other white meat” commercial pig. Passed out twice.

My desensitization program is steak-um, which is 100% beef. Day 1, one slice, day 2, two slices and so on. Even years back before I read about the desensitization study/program, I would grab one bite of the wife’s steak. Then grab 2-3 bites the next time. Worked out pretty well aside from that heritage pig ham.

NY Strip is as fatty as I go now and I don’t do baby back ribs. I’ll get the regular pork ribs and only have 2-3. I have a smoker and love smoked ribs.

The VA doctors are presuming that this is a new discovery for delayed food reactions that could never be explained. Meanwhile, we’ve had Lyme disease for decades and it’s now known that fedgov medical researchers probably created and released it. I think Bill Gates has funded some funky work with ticks, the same Bill Gates who is invested in fake beef and claims cows are causing climate change.

People used to say get rid of all the lawyers and things would be fine. I think that could be said about medical researchers and many other fields these days. Is politician considered a field? Career definitely - same difference.