In alpha-gal syndrome, the immune system overreacts to a sugar known as galactose-α-1,3-galactose, or "alpha-gal" for short.

This new evidence raises worries about the spread of AGS, particularly in regions like Long Island, where ticks are a growing ...

Two Emerging Infectious Diseases studies link bites from black-legged (deer) and western black-legged ticks to potentially ...

New research on alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a potentially life-threatening allergy to red meat, suggests that its spread may be ...

Alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy caused by a bite from the lone star tick, may also be triggered by the deer tick and ...

New research from the CDC is exposing surprising new culprits behind a growing meat allergy. The tick menace is even worse ...

A tick removed from a hunting dog in Dawson County was confirmed to be the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis, also called ...

like the black-legged tick (also called deer tick) that transmits the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, and the western black-legged tick, may also cause the condition. "We do believe the lone ...

In the US, alpha-gal syndrome is usually associated with bites from the lone star tick, but new cases were caused by black-legged and western black-legged ticks. So far 40 people have been ...

New cases suggests that other types of ticks, like the black-legged tick and the western black-legged tick, may also cause the condition.

A related tick, Ixodes pacificus, or the western black-legged tick, was also linked to the Washington case. The CDC’s map of suspected cases — which shows high concentrations in Alabama ...