# Claim Linking Tick-Borne Parasites to Childhood Diabetes

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2068831328079155609
- Source account: [@Maninamerica](https://x.com/Maninamerica)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:24
- Published: 2026-06-22
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/MVKLesL8ISGO/en/claim-linking-tick-borne-parasites-to-childhood-diabetes

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/MVKLesL8ISGO/en/claim-linking-tick-borne-parasites-to-childhood-diabetes) If you got bit by a tick when you were a kid, and the parasite you got bit with and introduced into your body by a tick when you were camping in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park when you were a kid, and then it got inside, that parasite got inside your pancreas,

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/MVKLesL8ISGO/en/claim-linking-tick-borne-parasites-to-childhood-diabetes?t=12) you would develop by the age of 10, let's say you were 8 years old when you got bit, by 10 years old, you would start developing juvenile diabetes symptoms.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/MVKLesL8ISGO/en/claim-linking-tick-borne-parasites-to-childhood-diabetes?t=19) Because the parasite is now in your pancreas.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/MVKLesL8ISGO/en/claim-linking-tick-borne-parasites-to-childhood-diabetes?t=21) And is diabetes an autoimmune disease? Yes.