What is known as the lone star tick, per the single white dot on their backs – a bite from them can cause Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), an allergic reaction caused by the bite, from sugar that is from meat and fat of nonprimate mammals the ticks feast on.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Alpha-gal can be found in meat (pork, beef, rabbit, lamb, venison, etc.) and products made from mammals (including gelatin, cow’s milk, and milk products).” They add it is not “found in fish, reptiles, birds, or people. AGS can also be contracted if the tick bites the human host.
Symptoms usually appear 2-6 hours after someone eats meat, fats, or diary products, which also includes gelatins such as supplement capsules and pharmaceutical coatings. These symptoms include:
- Hives or itchy rash
- Nausea or vomiting
- Heartburn or indigestion
- Diarrhea
- Cough, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing
- Drop in blood pressure
- Swelling of the lips, throat, tongue, or eye lids
- Dizziness or faintness
- Severe stomach pain
There is currently no cure or antidote for AGS.
The Cleveland Clinic wrote in mid-April of this year, “Bad news, burger fans: A tick bite has the potential to permanently remove red meat from your menu.” And while the lone star tick is the main source of AGS, they do note that “other tick species haven’t been ruled out as potential sources of AGS.”
There are other parts of the world where this phenomenon has been identified, and the lone star tick is not there.
Allergist Arnaldo Perez, MD
Such is the case in Sweden. Swedish Aftonbladet recently published an article titled, “Ticks spread meat allergy: “Increasingly common.”
During the summer months, many people stay outdoors to enjoy the sun and heat – it also means a greater risk of being bitten by ticks. Now it has been shown that the blood-sucking parasites can also cause meat allergies.
The Swedish outlet wrote
Scientific American wrote in a report published in mid-May of this year:
‘Normally, when a person eats meat from nonprimate mammals, such as cows and pigs, their body does not react to alpha-gal. But when a tick bite introduces the molecule, the immune system recognizes it as an invader and produces antibodies known as immunoglobulin E (IgE) tailored against it. IgE antibodies attach to disease-fighting white blood cells called basophils in the bloodstream and mast cells in tissues. The next time those cells come into contact with alpha-gal from any source, including meat, the antibodies recognize it, and the immune system attacks it.’
Forming IgE “can be thought of as loading the gun,” said Scott Commins, associate chief for allergy and immunology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and a leading AGS researcher.
Eating mammalian meat subsequently pulls the trigger.
Reported by Insider in April of this year, one woman in Georgia contracted AGS, she went into an anaphylactic shock when she arrived at the hospital, after breaking out in hives. According to her, she also since has had to double-check the soaps and cosmetics she uses, in case they contain animal by-products.
In their piece, Scientific American hinted at a solution to this problem: ‘The spread is prompting researchers to consider the potential long-term complications of AGS and to further verify the cause of the allergy using genetically modified meat.’
Scott Commins has been in talks with a biotechnology subsidiary of United Therapeutics called Revivicor, a company that raises pigs for organs to transplant into humans. These pigs are genetically modified to not have this alpha-gal sugar.
In 2020 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the meat of these “GalSafe” pigs for consumption. For the past few months, Revivicor has been sending the meat to people who suffer from the allergy, and it is considering a mail order business.
Commins would like to test people who eat GalSafe pig meat. If the alpha-gal molecule has been eliminated but the people still react to the meat, researchers would have to reconsider the apparent cause of AGS. “We’re confident that it’s alpha-gal,” Commins says, “but I think this would really prove it.”
Scientific American concluded in their article
In early May MIC, also reporting on the spread of AGS from these ticks, acknowledged: “This is taking the vegan cause way too far.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.1 Timothy 4:1-3
Whelp, I guess we can add the “lone star tick pandemic” to the list of potential future shamdemics, to ultimately get the masses to stop eating real meat.
It’s classic Problem. Reaction. Solution. Create a problem, wait for the artificial reaction, deliver the pre-planned solution. And as insinuated in these articles, the “solution” is to offer up GMO meats – falling right in line with the current agenda to get the masses to eat the plant-based and lab-grown slop.
Regulars of The WP know that I have said for a while that the next plandemic will be zoonotic. Whether it’s tick bites, monkeypox, bird flu, Covid variants, or penguin poop; the name and sales pitch will be irrelevant to the fact that it will be used as a coverup for continued and increasing Covid vaccine deaths, whilst justifying culling pets, livestock, and wildlife; so the masses will greatly reduce their meat intake.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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This is actually a thing – I experienced this 15 years ago. Please note: I experienced everything first and then, in hindsight, was able to piece everything together as to what happened. (I have never been allergic to any food and or had any kind of natural/seasonal allergies my entire life. At this point in my life, I had only had an allergy to the medicines, penicillin & sulfa.)
So, here’s my story; Back in 2006, my husband, young son and I were living in North Carolina, just South of Raleigh. We had 3 acres where I had several bird feeders and waterers scattered about. One June morning, I spent a good part of the morning filling the feeders and cleaning the waterers. Most of the places were directly under trees (mostly oak) with a pile of leaves at the bottom of each. I did not have adult ticks on me and never felt anything. Later that evening, I noticed I had a trail of red bumps all up one side of my body – from my feet to my neck. My husband stopped counting the bumps after he reached 200. It was later determined that these were not chiggers (red bugs) but were tick larvae.
I drank Children’s Benadryl as if it were water for the next 3 days just to cope with the itching and pain. At this time, I was able to eat red meat and everything else like I always had. Almost a month later, we had a family over for a meal and I made a lasagna. I got extremely sick to my stomach after eating it. I was actually worried that the meat in the lasagna was bad but no one else got sick. I didn’t think much more about it at the time. I always cooked a lot of things and varied the recipes between red meat with chicken. The next time I had red meat was when we were traveling to see family in Florida. I had a taco salad with ground beef right when we hit the road. My husband was driving and we were close to Walterboro, South Carolina (which was over 3 hours from our house.) I suddenly felt as if my throat was closing. I started having problems breathing and began itching all over where the bites had been almost a month prior. My husband immediately called my mom (a retired RN) and she advised him to stop and get me some antihistamine and get directions to the nearest ER.
I had some Benadryl in my travel kit, so I immediately took that as my husband dove off the interstate and pulled into a hotel. My breathing improved so I immediately got into a bath (what seemed to work when I first had the bites) because the itching was very intense as my husband went across the street to the CVS for more medicine, anti-itch cream and to ask directions to the nearest ER. The symptoms calmed down and I was able to sleep that night.
I had one more episode like this after eating red meat before I put it together that it was the red meat causing the episodes. It didn’t make sense as to why it was happening. I was not on any medication and was not taking any strange supplements, except Vitamin C. Doctors were at a loss and were no help. The internet did not have “Google Search” back then and there were no answers. I prayed and asked God to reveal it to me if it was information I needed.
I was able to put the pieces together and figured out it all steamed from the 200+ tick larvae that had bitten me in early June. It wasn’t until years later that I read about this phenomenon and was able to determine that this is what happened to me.
The good news; I WAS able to eat red meat again. I cannot remember exactly how long I had to go without, but I know I had to go without for over 6 months, but I don’t think it was quite a year. I continued to cook meals with red meat for my husband and son, but I would eat chicken or fish. Each time though, I would take a small bite of red meat and gauge my symptoms. Just a small taste would cause my stomach to get a little upset so I knew I couldn’t have any. I kept trying until, one day, my stomach didn’t get upset at one bite. I would slowly add another bite each time until no symptoms of an allergic reaction were there.
Writing this, I found an article from 2020 has some good information about it and explains it’s the lone star tick larvae, NOT the tick, that will most likely cause the allergy, because it has to do with the number of times you are bitten. Taken from the article:
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“Because larvae bite in far greater numbers than nymphs and adults, the larvae are more likely to give a person the allergy.
“It’s just a numbers game,” he said. “The more you get bitten, you are increasing the likelihood of potentially developing alpha gal meat allergy.”
https://www.27east.com/home-garden/chiggers-on-your-legs-nope-those-are-lone-star-tick-larvae-1720578/#:~:text=Chiggers%20is%20a%20term%20for%20mites%20found%20down,while%20tick%20nymphs%20and%20adults%20have%20eight%20legs.
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As always, the media is over hyping things as the unresearched masses take it all in….that’s ok – more real red meat for me!!
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Now the disease that makes people supposedly allergic to meat, it is 100% curable, and this meat allergy is also 100% reversible.
They could actually put in some ingredient in the vaccine that make people allergic to méat in the near future, who knows.
That’s a possibility. They’re already causing an AIDS-type of immunodeficiency so that wouldn’t surprise me.
Good old Plum Island, but I suppose some of it could be naturally occurring, too, in this fallen world.
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Thank you for contributing, Amy. That was really helpful. Lyme disease is becoming prevalent in our area & I hate the idea of giving up being outdoors. Sunlight, fresh air & vitamin D are so important…& we shouldn’t let them drive us in, so I look for things to overcome the challenges. I’m thinking you’re not cowering inside either!
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Not saying it’s a failsafe, but I got into the use of tinctures & essential oils due to my cancer experience & fight, and along the way, you learn which ones insects don’t like, & then there were the headlice wars when the grandkids got infested playing with public school kids.
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Clove, rosemary, lavender, orange, fennel, ylang-ylang, neem, sweet annie, anise (I’m sure there are more) all seem to repel insects. There is a variety coming at all sorts of different prices, some of which you can pretty easily obtain or grow & tincture yourself in oil or vinegar. Neem’s about the cheapest commercially but stinks!
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Because of the cancer, I invested in some of those oils from Bulk Apothecary before the availability went south & prices skyrocketed on a lot of them during the last ten years or so. So thankful to have them in my arsenal. I just buy unscented shampoo & put in the oils, using it for my hair & as a bodywash. Using it on the grandchildren when they’re here….just don’t make it too strong, & avoid the eyes like you do with any soap.
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Seems to work as I haven’t had a tick on me in years, though we don’t have a lot of oak trees near where I tend to be working outside these days. In the past, working where there were lots of oaks in a different location…back when I invested in the oils, they were really prevalent. Not sure about the larvae, but maybe that would help some. Oh, citronella, of course, & geranium repel some, too.
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I find it interesting how some of the immune boosting or cat-scat, insect-repellent scents & oils seem to overlap in their properties & effectiveness. Makes me sad that we’re not able to pursue & learn about some of those amazing things God designed in the world around us, & in provision, so easily anymore. …but I’m betting in the millennium that information & knowledge will explode.