Christine Longette never imagined tick bites would lead to a life-threatening allergy. Yet that is what happened to the Asbury Park woman in 2020 after she joined friends for a hike during the ...

This condition is triggered by a tick bite, and makes you allergic to red meat. The agency found that 110,000 people had tested positive for the allergy between 2010 and 2022. They also surveyed ...

Anywhere from 96,000 to as many as 450,000 people in the U.S. may have developed an allergy to red meat following the bite of a tick, according to 2023 data published by the Centers for Disease ...

A little-known, life-threatening food allergy that is triggered by a tick bite could be affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 100,000 people in the U.S. have become allergic to red meat since 2010 because of a weird syndrome triggered by tick bites, according to a government report released ...

Up to 450,000 people in the United States may have developed a rare and potentially life-threatening tick-associated allergic condition that is triggered when eating red meat, according to federal ...

Alpha-gal syndrome is a serious and life-threatening allergic reaction that appears in mammals after a tick bite. The lone star tick can transmit alpha-gal syndrome to humans through its saliva.

It’s rare, but in some cases a tick bite can cause a person to develop an allergy to red meat. Most cases, scientists believe, are linked to the lone star tick, a species typically found in the ...

"You're walking through the woods, and that tick has had a meal of cow blood or mammal blood," explains Cosby Stone, an allergy and immunology fellow at Vanderbilt University. "The tick ...