{"id":10100,"date":"2025-08-20T16:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10100"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:05:29","slug":"tick-borne-disease-spreads-causing-meat-dairy-allergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/20\/tick-borne-disease-spreads-causing-meat-dairy-allergies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tick-borne disease spreads, causing meat, dairy allergies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5460796-tick-borne-disease-dairy-meat-allergy\/\">The Hill<\/a> mergency room visits&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a65801609\/red-meat-allergy-ticks\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"have spiked, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have spiked<\/a>&nbsp;across the Midwest this summer as millions of Americans grapple with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/4752506-tick-that-can-cause-meat-allergy-may-be-spreading-what-to-know\/\">tick bites<\/a>, but a lesser-known tick-borne illness is causing particular alarm in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/12\/dining\/marthas-vineyard-alpha-gal-tick-bites.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"some communities., opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some communities.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yalemedicine.org\/news\/alpha-gal-syndrome\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Alpha-gal syndrome, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alpha-gal syndrome<\/a>, transmitted by the lone star tick, creates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/ap\/ap-u-s-news\/ap-a-meat-allergy-caused-by-tick-spit-is-getting-more-common-cdc-says\/\">severe allergies<\/a>\u00a0to meat and dairy products that can last for years. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/5337215-lyme-disease-isnt-the-only-tick-borne-threat-doctors-warn-these-other-diseases-are-spreading\/\">condition<\/a>\u00a0essentially forces people to adopt vegan diets, with some patients experiencing life-threatening reactions even to the smell of cooking meat. The lone star tick, identifiable by a white dot on the female\u2019s back, is most common from Maine to Florida and in Texas, living primarily in wooded and grassy areas.<br><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"Jj qlM ldP\">Jj qlM ldP<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill mergency room visits&nbsp;have spiked&nbsp;across the Midwest this summer as millions of Americans grapple with&nbsp;tick bites, but a lesser-known tick-borne illness is causing particular alarm in&nbsp;some communities. Alpha-gal syndrome, transmitted by the lone star tick, creates\u00a0severe allergies\u00a0to meat and dairy products that can last for years. The\u00a0condition\u00a0essentially forces people to adopt vegan diets, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tick-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10101,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions\/10101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}