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I agree. I’m never leaving my mom’s basement. Too scary out there.
Just wait. Sooner or later you will learn why the basement is horror central. Black mold comes to mind...
Radon gas.
Alpha-Gal Syndrome
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Re: Alpha-Gal Syndrome
#52Just wait until mad vegan activists who'd like to convert everyone else to their faith come spreading this tick in Europe.
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#53Why don’t we make ticks extinct?
Or use insect repellent when hiking? We already make enough species extinct unwillingly. I don't think it's a good idea to start extinguishing any species that bothers us. Where do you draw the line?
Re: Alpha-Gal Syndrome
#54Just wait until mad vegan activists who'd like to convert everyone else to their faith come spreading this tick in Europe.
The tick is already here in Europe and alpha-gal is already happening. No need for your hypothetical.
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#55Just wait until mad vegan activists who'd like to convert everyone else to their faith come spreading this tick in Europe.
You're delusional. Get some help.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, while I am fine with trying to make some infectious diseases to become extinct, I would be careful here, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign . In any case, apparently somebody else wondered about that too: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/wkyax/if_we_cou... However, it's conceivable that in the future we will figure out how to carry out large-scale vaccinations of tics, so we eradi…
Doesn't change anything to be honest. Any parasite should be eradicated regardless of whether it is infectious or not.
Much as I don't like ticks (and I really don't), I feel we should be extraordinarily careful before deliberately eliminating any species - they're almost certainly not the sole food source of anything, but even being a significant one might cause ripple effects. Plus, for all that they cause this and other problems when they bite us, it's not impossible that some of them trigger protective immune effects in some of the animals they bite, for example.
I think the solution needs to be some combination of getting much better at permanently modulating immune responses post-exposure and finding a method to avoid this extreme response.
Unfortunately, given the relative scarcity of these ticks and the newness of the condition, I would anticipate very little funding directly going toward finding a solution for it unless some ultrarich person takes it on as a cause du jour, or it comes "for free" with some other discoveries about immune modulation.
Re: Alpha-Gal Syndrome
#57My wife had this from late 2007 until mid 2009 and nearly died from it. She was one of the early, benchmark cases. We went to Mayo clinic in Rochester in the summer of 2008 and they had no luck identifying her symptoms. An exceptional allergy doctor near our home in Arkansas did endless research and mostly figured out what was going on. After my wife came off of beef in mid 2009 her symptoms completely disappeared. P…
12 years on, does she still have reactions if she eats beef? Does she (or maybe did she) have any reactions to other mammal proteins (milk, pork, etc)?
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Worth the risk of being food impaired for life? Don't know about that.
There's a much greater chance you could die in a car accident, do you also avoid the highways?
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. You can never 100% insulate yourself from all harm. But you can choose to reduce it where you see fit.
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#60Is the subtext here that it makes women bossy?