• key
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        11 year ago

        Not even by biting and sucking each other’s blood?

        • @vivadanang@lemm.ee
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          51 year ago

          are you suggesting tick-born illness has been weaponized by…? what, the soy milk mafia?

          do you have any idea how staggeringly, mind-numbingly stupid that sounds?

          • @Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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            11 year ago

            Not OP, but since it is feasible, it sounds like it would make a decent movie. I’m thinking something like Red Dawn or an eco-terrorist plot.

        • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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          31 year ago

          Are… you stoned? I do have to admit I thought about how vegans would love an airborne version. I read too much science fiction.

    • @stealthnerd@lemmy.world
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      131 year ago

      Tick bites can cause it. Something about your body building immunity to a protein transferred by the tick that closely matches those found in beef or something like that.

    • SuiXi3D
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      81 year ago

      There’s a kind of tick that, once it bites you, causes you to be deathly allergic to red meat from that point forward.

      • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        Not always! Last I heard, it can and does wear off. Might take 6-months, might take years. I gather the effect is so rare we don’t have a ton of data.

        But I’m often full of shit! Look it up yourself.

        • @dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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          31 year ago

          You are probably full of shit every day. Until you visit the loo. So don’t hold it against yourself!

    • Remmock
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      61 year ago

      For a non-tick response- Prion contamination resulting in Mad Cow Disease. One meal and your brain eventually rots in moldy cheese.

    • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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      51 year ago

      Yep, there is, it spreads though tic bites, and once bitten you will allways get sick after eating red meat.

    • BarqsHasBite
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      Alpha-gal syndrome. It’s not that common that it will affect entire populations.