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Alpha galactose allergy. It's a sugar found in the meat of all mammals except humans and other primates. If a tick has fed recently on, say, a deer then bites a human it can inject enough of the deer blood into the human for our immune system to recognize it as an invader and attack. Once your...

Beware those damned ticks! I caught alpha gal allergy from a tick bite and can no longer eat beef, pork, lamb, etc. They're the scariest critters in the woods.