Red meat allergy' caused by tick bites might be increasing in association with fragmented habitats (IMAGE)

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Red meat allergy' caused by tick bites might be increasing in association with fragmented habitats

Caption

A questing female lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum). Bites from the lone star tick are the primary cause of alpha-gal syndrome

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Laura Bishop, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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