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ElectronicsQuestions ElectronicsQuestions@BitcoinNostr.com 3 months ago
Is something strange going on? A few days ago, same day or the day after @Nunya Bidness talked about the paper regarding the Lone Star tick that can cause meat allergy, Swedish public service (AKA government (AKA theft) funded) radio had a segment mentioning that tick-caused meat allergy has increased in Sweden (no surprise mentioning the warmer weather due to global warming as a factor). I had never heard that the ticks we have in Sweden could cause meat allergy. Is this some kind of campaign, for example to prepare people for mass outbreaks of meat allergy, or as a coming "explanation" of a side effect of a certain medical product that was pushed heavily a few years ago? Is this something that anyone in any other country has read/seen/heard on mainstream media recently? Also asking @npub1pjxm...drrv given the nature of his research. (Hope I got the right person, I haven't interacted with him on Nostr before.)

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twentyone 3 months ago
I don’t know many details but I do know someone personally that has this. She no longer can eat beef I believe and thinks it is caused by a tick bite that occurred a year or two earlier. She lives in the US and does quite a bit of hiking. She would occasionally find a tick on herself and her dog.
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ElectronicsQuestions ElectronicsQuestions@BitcoinNostr.com 3 months ago
Yeah, I know it's a real thing, but it seemed strange that a paper comes out in the US, especially given its nature, and then just days later Swedish media talks about it being a thing with Swedish ticks, something I didn't know. Everything I've heard about the ticks here before has been about TBE and Lyme disease.
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