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What Is Alpha-Gal Syndrome? An Essay on Anaphylaxis to Bovine Proteins, the Tick Story That Followed, and the Proposal to Deploy It

VERY interesting read. It's possibly not what you have heard it is.

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This is a very interesting article. A piece I did not understand until I did some additional research was this part:

"Oncologists in the southeastern United States noticed something strange. In Tennessee and North Carolina, 22% of cetuximab patients suffered immediate hypersensitivity reactions on their first infusion. In the northeastern US, the figure was under 1%.⁷ The regional pattern was striking. Patients were reacting violently to a drug they had never been exposed to before, which meant something had sensitized them in advance."

Then I looked up the tick map from https://tickapp.tamu.edu/home/tick-identification/lone-star-tick/lst_distribution_map/ and saw the illustration. Makes sense now.

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And then I saw the pic below from this study https://www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S2213-2198(23)01201-1/abstract

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