Here's an infection you might want to avoid while you're cosplaying mountain men:
‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis
The ticks are known to be unusually aggressive and can provoke an allergy in bitten people whereby they cannot eat red meat without enduring a severe reaction, such as breaking out in hives and even the risk of heart attacks. The condition, known as alpha-gal syndrome, has proliferated from just a few dozen known cases in 2009 to as many as 450,000 now.
One of my friends in Seattle had this. It will fuck up your life real good. No steaks. No hamburgers. The only meat she could eat was lamb. That is expensive and hard to find.
