Dr. Scott Commins
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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It's just the allergic class of antibody.
So if you're allergic to cats or dogs, your allergist, immunologist might say you have IgE to cat or dog.
That is the million dollar question and we're not sure.
So there's clearly some risk that is attributable to the tick and there are good studies that look at male ticks versus female ticks and what they've been fed on and the scientists can detect different levels of alpha-gal in the tick saliva
between various life stages, between males and females.
So it probably really matters exactly which tick you were bitten by.
But then there's certainly going to be host issues too.
As humans, we find often I will have a
a spouse or a partner in the exam room.
And many times they'll say, well, you know, as long as I go out with Debbie, I don't get any tick bites.
They all go to her.
And so there's seems to be very clear risk things, risk factors that are happening at the host level.
The other example is blood type.
It is becoming increasingly clear that if your blood type B or AB is
your risk of developing alpha-gal syndrome is much lower than people who are A or O. So your question is right on.
These are the things that we're thinking about too.
I think there's a tick risk and a host risk, and we're still working on both of those.
The female lone star tick is a bad actor.
But I will tell you that increasingly we hear a lot about the larval life stage, which some people call seed ticks.
They're really difficult to see.
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