oh no they found a tick that will single-handedly add 5 years to your life expectancy and save the planet. This is horrible news
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I have said “infinite alpha gal syndrome upon the carnists” before but only as a joke. Being real for a moment, I don’t think it’s good for people to develop potentially deadly allergies to something still widely found in drugs and vaccines, even if those drugs and vaccines shouldn’t be using animal products to begin with. Like AGS was only discovered because some people experienced anaphylaxis when they took a drug for colorectal cancer.
Yes, I used to joke about this being a good thing, but the allergy, like you said, can get triggered by all sorts of common products (including toothpaste) and means that even if you adopt a vegan approach, you still can’t eat public food or use anything without care because you can get a reaction and die.
Jokes aside I’m begging and pleading with you to be tick aware, even if you’re “not in a place they live”. Their territory is growing with the shifting ecosystems and Lyme disease sucks, and doctors will spend time gaslighting you rather than giving you the fucking antibiotics. I’ve seen Lone Star Ticks in Illinois (southern, but still), and it’ll only get worse with vector borne diseases.
Just generally be aware of checking oneself if you’re in grass for extended periods of time (even turf). Prevention isn’t difficult, but awareness is
The shifting ecosystems point is really important, I live far enough north that I had never seen a tick in nature before last year and then I got bitten by two in one season
Yeah the first dr. I saw didn’t believe that my symptoms were from Lyme, also didn’t give me the blood panel and just prescribed steroids (foolish move for combatting an autoimmune condition). Fortunately I could get a second opinion, and a blood panel (believe it or not - positive for Lyme!), and antibiotics before it progressed too far. I don’t have any chronic effects - but the acute symptoms of one’s muscles locking up was not fun! I know other people who didn’t catch it and it ends up being a severe long term condition similar to lupus
I had the same expirience, PCP said it wasn’t lyme, they sent me to a neurologist who said it wasn’t, then I footed the bill for an infectious disease specialist who was like “WTF you should have started antibiotics two weeks ago”
Oops I’m wrong. Lyme triggers an autoimmune response and potentially symptoms which are similar to lupus - but it’s an infectious disease, and lupus is an autoimmune disease.
I’ve been dealing with tick-borne chronic illness for the past 20 years, shit sucks.
Also, if you’re going through the woods or through high grass, tuck your pant legs into your socks, and your shirt into your pants. Ticks do not climb downward and this trick will funnel them to your neck, where you will more easily feel them.
My prevention is simply never leaving the house
Avid indoorsfolk stay winning
Killed Leslie Feinberg too, Lyme disease is wild.
yeah, my dog got absolutely wrecked by anaplasmosis, he made it but at what cost
it won’t add 5 years to your life, you could die if you’re unknowingly infected with the virus and you eat meat.
The allergy is to a carbohydrate produced by most mammals, with primates being a notable weird exception, but which also appears in some other things. One of them is apparently pretty ubiquitous in vegan packaged foods too, though I can’t remember what it is. Also randomly shows up in basically any packaged food in non-disclosed ingredients. And if eating at restaurants, the threshold for what constitutes dangerous cross contamination with foods containing it is vastly lower than for typical allergies or other dietary restrictions so even a place following “proper” standards can still be dangerous.
So it’s basically playing anaphylactic shock roulette if you eat anything other than poultry/eggs, fish, grain, fruit, and vegetables that you prepare from as close to basic ingredients as you can, although there’s only one recorded death from it.
with primates being a notable weird exception
countdown to carnist monkey farms
:no:
there’s precedent too because people do sometimes be eating monkeys :(
or for ice to open up a soylent green factory
Alpha galactose
fuck ticks all my homies hate ticks
ticks are natures capitalist
If you don’t have pets, you can put Permethrin on your clothes and let it dry. You will not be fucked with.
It’s throwing the kitchen sink at the problem though. I’ve accidentally caught a wiff once and was lightheaded for a hot minute.
I genuinely hope after we’ve dealt with capitalism that humanity can come together and use all the science and technology at our disposal to drive ticks and fleas to extinction
I told y’all if y’all elect me president doing that to all the mosquitoes is #2 on the agenda after the Transhattan Project
We’re so good at making species go extinct. Can’t we use that power for good a couple times?
Mosquitos aren’t a large portion of any other animal’s diet due to their small size, they don’t pollinate anything that isn’t pollinated by other things (except like a weird niche species of Arctic orchid), they hold no important place in the ecosystem except for spreading misery and disease
i’ll join the coalition if we expand scope to include bedbugs
The guy who discovered Alpha-Gal syndrome made fun of my hair a couple weeks ago, completely unprompted
I didn’t know who it was, just some dude walked up behind me while I was visiting a lab and said some dumb shit about about the hair coming out of my bun, and then I was told after by the people I was talking to “That was the guy that discovered Alpha-Gal”
not a hairdo that should be throwing shade
THATS WHAT I SAID
The anti carnist disease is unironically called the Alpha Gal Syndrome
Honestly, if this was a bio weapon it would be a pretty ethical one
Total unsupport
A mixed diet is what most people in developing nations would be able to afford decently. Especially in places with higher child stunting n all, this would be very problematic.
Nature is healing
cri-TICK-al support
I think one of the maintenance guys who eats my vegan food pretty much has to because of this
This has been my plan for 20 years. Begun the Tofu Wars have
I am joining the Tofu Wars (on the side of tofu)
See you in the trenches, comrade
We should put this lil guy in the water supply as a harmless silly prank
In the exurbs where there’s lots of deer and rabbits and big lawns.
Parents returning from a steakhouse with their kids have to rush to an urgent care center. They soon realize that all up and down the block, kids and a few adults were having the same story play out. For some reason no one on the block can eat red meat, since roughly the same year.
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