A tick bite can make you allergic to meat, and cases are climbing
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76Z1R)
A tick bite can make you become allergic to hamburgers. Alpha-gal syndrome - a red-meat allergy triggered by the Lone Star tick - is spreading so quickly that researchers just held the first-ever scientific conference on it. According to Scientific American, the CDC estimates 450,000 Americans have it, and a July study found about one in four people tested across five Southern states carried the antibodies. - Read the rest
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