Sometimes it's just a matter of asking the right question. From Food Safety News:
Red Meat Allergy Likely Caused by Tick Bites
by Gretchen Goetz | Jun 26, 2012
A few years ago, doctors in the southern United States started noticing an odd phenomenon: people were becoming allergic to red meat, seemingly out of the blue. What in the environment was causing this response? The answer, surprisingly, turned out to be ticks.
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Then, in August of 2009, the answer quite literally came to Platts-Mills when his own IgE to alpha-gal levels suddenly spiked days after he was bitten repeatedly by ticks while on a hike in the woods.
Out of curiosity, the researchers began asking patients if they had been bitten by ticks before their meat allergy developed.
"Once we opened up that line of questioning, it just blew up on us," Commins told Food Safety News.
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