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Explanation
This single-panel comic shows Snow White sitting in a forest clearing, arms outstretched, calling out: "Come to me, woodland mammals!" Various forest animals -- a deer, raccoons, and others -- are gathered around her in the classic Disney fairy tale pose.
The caption below delivers the punchline: "A realistic Snow White would be a Noah's Ark of tickborne diseases."
The joke punctures the romanticized Disney image of a princess communing with friendly woodland creatures. In reality, wild animals like deer, raccoons, and other woodland mammals are notorious vectors for ticks carrying diseases such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, and many others. A person who actually attracted every woodland mammal in the forest to snuggle up against her would be exposing herself to an extraordinary concentration of disease-carrying parasites. The humor comes from applying real-world epidemiology to a fairy tale scenario, and the phrase "Noah's Ark of tickborne diseases" is particularly effective because it repurposes a biblical image of gathering animals two-by-two into something medically horrifying.