- Janice Hopkins Tanne
- New York
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has told US doctors to be alert for a little known tickborne allergic disease that may affect nearly half a million Americans.
Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is “an emerging and potentially life threatening allergic condition, also known as red meat allergy or tick bite meat allergy,” the agency said in a press notice and two papers in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).123
There is growing evidence that the syndrome is triggered by a bite from Ambylomma Americanum, known as the lone star tick, that is common in a wide area of …
