ER visits for tick bites on the rise throughout the Midwest

ER visits for tick bites on the rise throughout the Midwest

The Lone Star tick is responsible for most cases of alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy that's appearing more and more in Kansas. (Kansas State University Research and Extension.)TOPEKA — Emergency rooms in most parts of the United States saw more tick bite-related visits than usual in April. For every 100,000 emergency room visits in the Midwest in April, 137 were for tick bites, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A…