Ticks are vectors for an allergic reaction that causes meat eaters to have a reaction after eating meat.

The meat allergy, known as alpha-gal for a sugar carbohydrate found in beef, lamb, and pork, produces a hivelike rash—and, in some people, a dangerous anaphylactic reaction—roughly 4 hours after consuming meat. But unlike other common food allergies, the alpha-gal allergy has been found only in people who have been bitten by ticks—specifically the lone star tick, previously best known for causing a condition called southern tick-associated rash illness, the symptoms of which include rash, fatigue, headache, fever, and muscle pains. "You have to have a tick bite to then trigger the immune reaction," Stanley Fineman, an allergist and president of American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI).

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Who hasnt been bitten by a lonestar tick that does not live the life of a veal calf?

I don't think we have the lonestar tick. Ours are constellation ticks. They hang around in groups and form outlines.