Burkhard Bilger
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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I think it's a little bit like long COVID.
I think it's something that's kind of half accepted, but we haven't pinned down exactly how long it lasts, if it can really last forever.
I mean, I've always heard that if you really go all out with a full dose
rounds of multiple antibiotics you can even get long-term live out but you know i was just talking this morning to my my brother-in-law who's a doctor and he was saying yeah but you can get neurological damage there's things that can happen from not treating lime that will stick with you um i do think it's that's the scary thing about lime is it's it's as opposed to alpha gal is you know it's curable but then often people don't know to cure it and then by the time they cure it they've already had some
I mean, it's, yeah, exactly.
I mean, and it's the same combination of factors, right?
It's not just climate change.
Certainly climate change, I think, has allowed ticks to move north.
And in some cases, west, if it happens to have made some area more humid, you know, where they can handle better.
But the bigger thing, I think, is land use.
If you look at the east, you know, eastern United States, it's been reforested dramatically in the last 50 years, you know?
And not just that.
you've had people do that at the same time you have suburbanization, you have these sub-developments out in the woods, you have this kind of sense of what used to be inner city became suburb, and now you have a kind of sprawl that's sending its tendrils out deeper into the forest.
You get all these edge habitats that deer love, that all the animals you're talking about love, and that ticks then can ride on those hosts and proliferate.
So we've kind of created the perfect
I mean, if you're from the South, it's been the dominant tick for a long time.
Like 90% of tick bites are from Lone Star ticks.
They've been used to the Lone Star ticks.
Yeah, for them it was just... But, you know, the interesting thing is, like, there was a study done where we get our alpha-gal statistics.
It's based on the study of blood samples from military recruits, 3,000 of them all over the country.
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