AGS is a serious allergic reaction triggered by a sugar molecule called alpha-gal, which is found in most mammalian meat. When certain ticks bite humans, they can transfer alpha-gal into the ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a warning that a rare red meat allergy is now being ...

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

I bet this all could have been avoided if he'd just used soap and then cooked the meat properly. Feudal-era Japan had a Buddhism-derived social stigma against mammal meat, which meant pig farming ...

Alpha-gal syndrome, colloquially called the ‘mammalian meat allergy’ or the ‘tick bite meat allergy,’ is a severe allergic reaction (hypersensitivity) to the disaccharide galactose-α-1,3 ...

Thanks to advances in biotechnology, meat can now be produced without need for animals or farms. Although this cultured meat isn’t commercially available today, it will be arriving on our plates ...