Comment by echelon

This is fantastic! Every step against ticks is a good one.

Now we need to find a way to prevent Lone Star ticks from making us allergic to meat. It's a big deal where I live.

The ticks are not likely something we can vaccinate against, since the mechanism involves the tick priming our immune system to attack innocuous animal carbohydrates present in meat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyomma_americanum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy