Tick Bite Causes Allergy To Meat.

Doctors were baffled when patients in the Southern US and Australia were reporting sudden allergies to meat when scientists discovered the unlikely source, the lone star tick.

Seventy-eight year old Peyton Thomas had always been a big meat eater when one summer he suddenly developed an allergy to beef, pork, and lamb. After visiting several doctors it was determined that Thomas had contracted a serious allergy to meat from a lone star tick. He could no longer eat his beloved meat without suffering serious consequences.

Doctors say the symptoms from an allergic reaction to meat can sneak up on a person. Someone with the allergy can eat meat for dinner and go to bed fine, they’ll wake up in the middle of the night covered in hives, swelling, struggling to breathe, cramping, having diarrhea, and passing out.

Even though the tick bite usually only causes people to be allergic to pork, beef, and lamb, doctors warn those afflicted to avoid all meat entirely just to be safe.

I think we might have discovered how we can get people to stop eating meat…