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More than 110,000 people so far have developed Alpha-gal syndrome in the U.S., according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but the agency notes that the actual ...
In a recently released report, the CDC estimates that nearly half a million Americans suffer from alpha-gal syndrome.This potentially life-threatening allergy to red meat is triggered by tick ...
Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), also known as alpha-gal allergy or mammalian meat allergy (MMA), [1] is a type of acquired allergy characterized by a delayed onset of symptoms (3–8 hours) after ingesting mammalian meat. The condition results from past exposure to certain tick bites and was first reported in 2002.
Here’s everything you need to know about alpha-gal syndrome
Galactose-α-1,3-galactose, commonly known as alpha gal and the Galili antigen, is a carbohydrate found in most mammalian cell membranes. It is not found in catarrhines , [ 1 ] including humans, who have lost the GGTA1 gene.
Pork–cat syndrome is an allergy to pork, usually after adolescence, that is related to cat allergy. Although first described in 1994, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] it was first documented in the U.S. by Scott Commins and Thomas Platts-Mills during their research on alpha-gal allergy .
Serious and potentially life-threatening symptoms occur after people eat red meat or are exposed to other products containing the alpha-gal molecule, the CDC said. Alpha-gal syndrome symptoms
Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) is a tick-borne, infectious disease caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum, an obligate intracellular bacterium that is typically transmitted to humans by ticks of the Ixodes ricinus species complex, including Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus in North America.