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Viral posts allege a secret effort to spread ticks on US farms and to trigger an allergy to red meat. The false claims lean on misleading footage and unfounded accusations, while ignoring scientific evidence about how lone star ticks – and the condition they can cause – are actually spreading. BBC Verify reporter Marco Silva has been investigating.
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