Andy Stumpf

So here it is.

Alpha-gal syndromes appeared to have first emerged in the U.S.

in the late 1980s, but was not recognized as a distinct tick-related meat allergy until the early 2000s.

So in 1989, clinicians in Georgia collected about 10 cases of delayed allergic reactions to mammalian meat.

Mammalian?

Mammalian.

Mammalian meat and link them to prior tick bites.

These observations were not widely recognized at the time.

Allergy was first formally identified as originating from tick bites in the U.S.

by Thomas Platts Mills in the early 2000s.

Reports note this discovery process beginning around 2002 and becoming clear by 2007.

Huh.

So in the medical literature, it's first described in 2009 when published work documented patients with delayed reactions to red meat and linked them to IgE against alpha-gal.

Interesting.

So it seems like it's in the 80s but really started being recognized in the 2000s.

Explain.

I mean he has definitely – he's slandered down.

Yeah.

I mean he's lost – I think he lost 10 pounds.

I'm pretty sure he was wearing his wife's pants at the MKC event.