As the calendar turns to warmer months, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning about the ...

but they can usually seek immediate treatment and pinpoint the food that caused the problem. The allergy to mammalian meat like beef, pork, and lamb that's spread by a bite from a lone star tick ...

In humans, lone star ticks can also transmit Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI), Heartland virus, and alpha-gal ...

The cause is the lone star tick; one-quarter of an inch in length, one bite from this tick can result in an red meat allergy to red meat — and sometimes meat byproducts like dairy — that lasts ...

The rate of Americans developing a rare meat allergy from tick bites is rising ... Blood-sucking bites from the lone star, formally called the Amblyomma americanum, can make a person sick when ...