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A tick bite can make you allergic to meat, and cases are climbing

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 13, 2026
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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…

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