It Begins as a Tick Bite and Can Be Devastating. And It's Spreading. [View all]

A decade ago, Scott Curatolo-Wagemann knew of only one person stricken with a tick-borne ailment called alpha-gal syndrome — the husband of his wife’s cousin.

The list has since grown in his corner of Long Island: His sister, who was bitten this past summer, has it. So does his sister’s best friend. Then there’s the mother of a boy on his son’s baseball team. The phlebotomist at the Labcorp office where he gets blood drawn has it.

And, yes, Mr. Curatolo-Wagemann has alpha-gal, too.

Once regarded as a rarity, the disease, which involves an allergy to red meat that develops after a tick bite, has emerged as a significant health menace, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimating that as many as 450,000 people nationwide may have had it in the past 15 years. And that is probably an undercount, said Dr. Scott Commins, who helped solve the mystery of alpha-gal syndrome about two decades ago.

More recently, Dr. Commins was involved in testing, largely at random, 3,000 samples from blood donors in 10 states for alpha-gal antibodies. A forthcoming study shows that in Arkansas, Kentucky and Missouri, nearly 30 percent of samples tested positive, although that doesn’t mean that all — or even most — had allergic symptoms, he said.''''

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/nyregion/alpha-gal-meat-allergy-deaths.html?

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