Rare disease causing meat allergy sees 'explosive rise' across US: study

Rare disease causing meat allergy sees 'explosive rise' across US: study

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- A once-rare disease that causes a person to develop a severe allergy to red meat is seeing an "explosive rise" across America, health experts warn. Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) report that more and more people throughout the United States are contracting alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a tick-borne disease. Specifically, they found that there has been a 100-fold increase in cases between 2013 and 2024. …