“We’ve seen an explosive increase in these ticks, which is a concern. I imagine alpha-gal will soon include the entire range of the tick, which could become the entire eastern half of the US as there’s not much to stop them. It seems like an oddity now but we could end up with millions of people with an allergy to meat.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/lone-star-ticks-increase-climate-crisis
@nomebullyyou thank you us army biological weapons program
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@Paultron-3030 Do you know if it was on purpose to make everyone have to eat bugs or if it was just incompetence where they can't keep their weaponized ticks in their pants?
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@nomebullyyou almost certainly accidental release tbh, it showed up in the wild in just one place outside fort Detrick where the bio weapons labs were and spread from there
@Paultron-3030 @nomebullyyou Maybe they should stop experimenting on tiny impossible to eradicate parasites
@Griffith @nomebullyyou that was the point, you drop them on an enemy and they're stuck with them. The Koreans are p insistent we used airdropped ticks on em back in the day
Anyways the us officially ended its bioweapons program in the later Cold War (which oddly enough I kind of believe them on)
Anyways the us officially ended its bioweapons program in the later Cold War (which oddly enough I kind of believe them on)
@Paultron-3030 @Griffith Seems weaponized mosquitos didn't get all the way to practical implementation then.
@nomebullyyou @Griffith mosquitos were the other big vector, they actually do publicly admit to testing air drops of them in the US
@Paultron-3030 @nomebullyyou I bet we did, and I bet it mostly hurt civilians. It’s certainly hurt us more than it’s ever helped in a war.
