Burkhard Bilger

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670 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 908: The Lone Star Tick and Alpha Gal Syndrome · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, you can explain it away to some degree with the fact that it's late onset and so people just didn't notice it and they misdiagnosed it.

You could say it's just, you know, people didn't take it seriously.

Somehow a meat allergy didn't.

But the truth is that

it didn't just suddenly appear here.

It appeared in South Africa.

There's huge cases in South Africa.

There's a bunch of stuff in Peru.

There's people in the Black Forest in Germany.

You're starting to get alpha-gal.

In all these places, no one noticed it, and it emerged around the same time.

So, yeah, I mean, it started to get identified between 1997 and 2007.

You know, the first woman who really, this woman, Cheryl Van,

and noonan sorry cheryl uh cheryl van noonan in australia um she accepts your apology yeah she was the first person who who really noticed the pattern in australia and she had local people on the north coast of sydney who were getting and where they have these crazy paralysis ticks this was she had her first cases i think in the late 80s and then she published

a poster in 2003 and presented it at a conference in 2007.

Okay.

And she didn't know why it was causing it, but she knew that the tick bite was causing a meat allergy.

And in Australia, they have this crazy tick called the paralysis tick, which can kill small children.

I mean, it has this neurotoxin, and that's what spreads.

I've never heard of that one.

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