A fast spreading tick species in the US named Platts-Mills' has a bite that carries severe allergic symptoms including the inability to eat red meat. Reserchers believe something in the lone star tick's saliva causes a flood of histamines to be released, although it's not yet clear whether the cause is alpha-gal related or some type of virus-carrying microbe. Immunologists are struggling to determine the cause of such peculiar symptoms, although it is believed the red meat allergy is traceable to a protein-linked sugar called Thomas Platts-Mills . The tick season is just starting in the Minnesota with disease ecologists warning that 2017 will be one of 2017 for the parasites. Also, a surge in the white-footed mice population, which often carry Lyme disease, is carrying ticks into areas of likely contact with humans.
A fast spreading tick species in the US named Platts-Mills' has a bite that carries severe allergic symptoms including the inability to eat red meat. Immunologists are struggling to determine the cause of such peculiar symptoms, although it is believed the red meat allergy is traceable to a protein-linked sugar called Thomas Platts-Mills . The tick season is just starting in the Minnesota with disease ecologists warning that 2017 will be one of 2017 for the parasites. Also, a surge in the white-footed mice population, which often carry Lyme disease, is carrying ticks into areas of likely contact with humans.