Invasive Fire Ants Limiting Spread of Meat Allergy -- but Pose Their Own Dangers (IMAGE)
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The meat allergy was first identified by UVA Health's Thomas Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, an internationally renowned allergist. Since then, he and his colleagues have shed light on how and why the tick's bite causes people to develop allergic reactions to a particular sugar, alpha-gal, present in meat and other mammalian products.
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Dan Addison | UVA Communications
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