They tied it to the lone star tick.

他们把它和美洲花蜱联系起来。

They say the lone star tick population is expanding.

他们说，美洲花蜱的数量正在增加。

What's worse is that the range of the lone star tick is growing.

更糟糕的是孤星蜱虫的分布范围还在扩大。

And they found the virus residing in lone star ticks—the most common in the region.

他们发现病毒寄居在当地最常见的孤星蜱体内。

We also know places where this alpha-gal red meat allergy exists, but they don't have lone star ticks at all.

还有一些地区也有红肉过敏发生，但是那里没有孤星蜱虫。

The locations of the cases aligned almost perfectly with the range of a specific type of tick, the lone star tick.

这些过敏案例发生的区域与一种蜱虫的分布区域几乎完全重合，那就是孤星蜱虫。

Our last contender for weirdest bug bite comes from the lone star tick.

我们最奇怪的虫咬的最后一个竞争者来自孤星蜱。

It's spread by the bite of the lone star tick, which is found in the U.S. South, Midwest and mid-Atlantic.

刘易斯：它是通过孤星蜱虫的叮咬传播的，孤星蜱虫分布在美国南部、中西部和大西洋中部。