alpha-gal syndrome

(Newser) - Researchers have documented the first known fatality from a red meat allergy that's caused by a tick bite. The case involves a 47-year-old airline pilot from New Jersey whose mysterious death last September puzzled doctors until blood tests revealed a severe allergic reaction tied to alpha-gal syndrome , reports NBC...

(Newser) - The strange effect of a particular tick bite has been in the news for a few years now. A bite from a Lone Star tick makes some people allergic to meat and sometimes dairy, a condition known as alpha-gal syndrome. Now the Atlantic reports that one segment of the population...

(Newser) - If eating red meat makes you sick, you may be one of hundreds of thousands of Americans unaware that they have an allergy spread by ticks . In two studies released Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 110,000 suspected cases of the allergy, alpha-gal syndrome, have been...