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MAHA's latest conspiracy? Blaming Bill Gates for spike in tick bites (The Independent, 5/19/26)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/maha-bill-gates-pfizer-tick-conspiracy-b2979810.htmlThe next MAHA conspiracy is about this year’s record tick season, it involves Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates – and it was also disproven three years ago.
Social media users are claiming the billionaire philanthropist bred and released ticks with alpha-gal syndrome, which causes life-threatening allergic reactions to red meat. The MAHA Moms Coalition asked farmers to come forward to confirm whether boxes of ticks were being left on their land.
The ticks theory alleges that Gates wants to turn consumers toward the plant-based meat products he has invested in, though people sharing it did not provide any evidence for those claims.
The syndrome is also tied to Lone Star ticks, which are completely different from those in a British research program to genetically modify cattle ticks funded partially by Gates, according to a 2023 fact-check by The Associated Press, after the same conspiracy theory made an earlier appearance.
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Social media users are claiming the billionaire philanthropist bred and released ticks with alpha-gal syndrome, which causes life-threatening allergic reactions to red meat. The MAHA Moms Coalition asked farmers to come forward to confirm whether boxes of ticks were being left on their land.
The ticks theory alleges that Gates wants to turn consumers toward the plant-based meat products he has invested in, though people sharing it did not provide any evidence for those claims.
The syndrome is also tied to Lone Star ticks, which are completely different from those in a British research program to genetically modify cattle ticks funded partially by Gates, according to a 2023 fact-check by The Associated Press, after the same conspiracy theory made an earlier appearance.
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