They kept having weird reactions, but couldn’t figure out why. Four pioneers of the new tick-borne meat allergy share how one particularly nasty tick bite changed their lives.
On the ever-growing list of frightening tick-borne illnesses, alpha-gal syndrome is the new bogeyman. The syndrome is imparted by the lone star stick – named for the white splotch on the adult female’s back – which has migrated up from the South and is now vying with the deer tick for species dominance...