Tag: meat allergy

Invasive fire ants with a nasty bite likely are limiting the spread of an allergy to red meat transmitted by ticks.

Our Loren Erickson, PhD, has shed some important light on what happens inside the body of people who develop the meat allergy after being bitten by the Lone Star tick.

Our Thomas Platts-Mills discovered that tick bites can cause people to become allergic to red meat, a story that has fascinated people around the world. But that’s just one of his many fascinating accomplishments.

Usually when a news headline is phrased as a question, the answer is "no" or, at best, "maybe." But the cover of the current issue of C-Ville, Charlottesville's alternative weekly, features a rare exception. It asks, "Could you be allergic to meat?" And the answer is "yes, absolutely," a discovery…

I've been getting questions from people who have the meat allergy about our new discovery that links sensitivity to the allergen in red meat with increased buildup of fatty plaques in the arteries of the heart. They're understandably concerned and want to know what to do. Here's that info, straight…

The meat allergy spread by ticks continues to get more interesting -- and concerning. A team of our researchers led by Coleen McNamara, MD, has linked sensitivity to the allergen in meat to increased buildup of fatty plaque in the arteries of the heart. Note that I said "sensitivity to…