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The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts-Including Us. Lone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome (www.newyorker.com)
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[–] Cort@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well it's in gelatin which is used to encapsulate many medications.