QUESTION OF THE DAY: Do you know someone with alpha-gal syndrome?
Matthew Sanders
Awareness of alpha-gal syndrome is growing.
The disease can affect people bitten by lone star ticks, and those bites are growing in frequency, as shown by the increase in emergency room visits related to tick bites.
Alpha-gal syndrome leads to an allergy to mammal products, food and otherwise. Its presence in Missouri is known, but not its magnitude.
Do you know someone with alpha-gal syndrome? Let us know by voting in the poll.