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Re:Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human i... by aidenn0 on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:40PM (#28280915)
I visited my parents in the DC area, and there's been a bunch of people developing really nasty rashes from insect bites, I don't know if it's confirmed, but it seems to be attributed to an oak-mite[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyemotes_herfsi

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Re:Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human i... by pwg on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:01PM (#28281182)
There was an article on that topic in the Washington Post at the end of July:

WaPo link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/07/30/oak-mites...

Archive.is link (no paywall): https://archive.is/AEi6a

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