Other Human Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
People living in tick-endemic areas around the world are being warned of an increasingly prevalent, potentially life-threatening side effect to being bitten: developing a severe allergy to meat. Sufferers of “tick-induced mammalian meat allergy” will experience a delayed reaction of between 2 and 10 hours after eating red meat. Almost invariably, they are found to have been bitten by a tick — sometimes as much as 6 months before.
Although most cases of tick bites of humans are uneventful,
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