date:Jul 26, 2012
The research, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, examined three patients who had experienced delayed anaphylaxis to meat, a new syndrome which has emerged in the US. They discovered that all three patients had been bitten by the Lone Star Tick.
The scientists said the reaction could be caused by antibodies to a carbohydrate substance, alpha-gel, that is produced in a patients blood after the tick bite. Alpha-gel is also present in meat and eating meat causes the immune sys