DURHAM, N.C., June 15 -- North Carolina State University issued the following press release:
Summertime is for backyard cookouts, hiking along wooded trails, camping and exploring the outdoors. But it's also when ticks are most active and ready to bite.
One tick-borne disease in particular, alpha-gal syndrome, is gaining attention for its ability to cause an allergy to red meat and dairy. It's especially prevalent in a belt of states from North Carolina and Virginia all the way to Oklahoma, where the lone star tick, a primary carrier of alpha-gal, is dominant.
We caught up with Michael Reiskind, a professor of entomology at NCState University who specializes in the ecology of disease vectors such as mosquitoes and ticks, to talk about th...