{"id":7006,"date":"2024-07-10T12:22:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2024-07-10T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:28:45","slug":"tick-species-that-can-cause-meat-allergy-and-other-illnesses-is-spreading-across-the-us-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/10\/tick-species-that-can-cause-meat-allergy-and-other-illnesses-is-spreading-across-the-us-study-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Tick Species That Can Cause Meat Allergy And Other Illnesses Is Spreading Across The US, Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mollywetsch\/2024\/07\/09\/tick-species-that-can-cause-meat-allergy-and-other-illnesses-is-spreading-across-the-us-study-suggests\/\">Forbes<\/a> The lone star tick, which is known for its aggressive nature and bites that can cause alpha-gal syndrome, or red meat allergy, as well as other dangerous viruses, is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2024\/07\/08\/lone-star-ticks-meat-allergy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spreading across the United States<\/a>\u00a0beyond its usual habitat in the southeast, a study suggests, as climate change exacerbates rising temperatures and longer warm seasons across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tick species primarily resides in the southeastern U.S., but a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0209082\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>&nbsp;by scientists at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Walter Reed suggests that in recent years it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/tick-notes\/the-newest-tick-in-some-towns\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been found<\/a>&nbsp;in increasingly northern and western locations,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/tick-notes\/the-newest-tick-in-some-towns\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as far west as Wyoming<\/a>&nbsp;and as far north as Maine, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/utswmed.org\/medblog\/meat-allergy-alpha-gal-tick-bite\/#:~:text=A%20recent%20study%20by%20the,of%20lone%20star%20tick%20populations.\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some scientists&nbsp;<\/a>say that the growth of the lone star tick\u2019s habitat could be due to longer seasons of warm temperature caused by climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bites from a lone star tick are the primary cause in the U.S. of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yalemedicine.org\/conditions\/alpha-gal-syndrome-ags#:~:text=Overview,and%20tick%20bite%20meat%20allergy.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alpha-gal syndrome<\/a>, which causes an allergic reaction to a sugar known as alpha-gal found in beef, pork and lamb, among other mammalian meats and dairy products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mollywetsch\/2024\/07\/09\/tick-species-that-can-cause-meat-allergy-and-other-illnesses-is-spreading-across-the-us-study-suggests\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes The lone star tick, which is known for its aggressive nature and bites that can cause alpha-gal syndrome, or red meat allergy, as well as other dangerous viruses, is\u00a0spreading across the United States\u00a0beyond its usual habitat in the southeast, a study suggests, as climate change exacerbates rising temperatures and longer warm seasons across the 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