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When You Get Bitten By A Tick, Here's What Could Happen To Your Body

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Nothing can ruin a beautiful day spent out of doors than finding a tick attached to your body. Ticks are common all throughout the United ...
Forbes

First Reported Alpha-Gal Syndrome Death, Meat Allergy From Tick Bite

The lone star tick, seen here in a vial, can transmit alpha-gal sugar and thus alpha-gal syndrome. (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) Tick. Tick. Tick. It was ...
WVTF

Ticks Are Thriving in Southwest Virginia. Here’s What That Means for Your Health.

Southwest Virginia is a hotspot for tick-borne disease— with some of the highest per-person rates of Lyme disease in the ...

Ticked off: Exploring the rise of tick-induced meat allergy and its connection to cardiovascular disease

Mammalian meat allergy (MMA) is one of the few known food allergies caused by an environmental trigger—a tick bite. In simple ...
WBAL-TV

New Jersey man is first known death from meat allergy triggered by tick bites

SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SO FIVE IN YOUR HEALTH TONIGHT. THAT’S WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HOW A DEADLY FOOD ALLERGY IS NOW BEING LINKED TO TICK BITES. IT’S CALLED ALPHA GAL ...
NBC New York

First death reported from meat allergy caused by tick bite

A 47-year-old airline pilot from New Jersey is the first person known to have died from alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy caused by a tick bite. Researchers at the University of Virginia School ...