Alpha-Gal Syndrome (AGS) is as peculiar as it is surprising. Known as the “red meat allergy” or “tick-bite allergy,” AGS occurs when a tick bite triggers an allergy to alpha-Gal ...
It took doctors a long time, however, to figure out the unlikely cause: alpha-gal syndrome, also known as red meat allergy, which Wallace probably got from lone star tick bites in her backyard in ...