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How Do Ticks Cause Meat Allergies?

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Natural Sciences, Science, Technology

4.01.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

You can contract an allergy to red meat from a tick bite thanks to a compound called alpha-gal. Learn how it works in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/allergies/food-allergy/dairy-eggs-meat/meat-allergy-lone-star-tick.htm

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1:22.3

Welcome to Brain Stuff, a production of I Heart Radio.

1:41.1

Hey, Brain Stuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here.

1:43.9

The food allergies are a bummer, but for meat lovers, alpha-gal syndrome,

1:49.1

also called mammalian meat allergy, is something of a tragedy.

1:54.2

Alpha-gal is the name of a sugar molecule found in most mammals, but not in humans,

1:59.5

and not in fish, birds, or reptiles.

2:02.4

The scientists in the United States first began seeing allergic reactions to red meat

2:06.8

in the 1990s, which they traced specifically to alpha-gal by 2006.

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