Flora Lichtman
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
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Almost 20 years ago, before anyone really knew what it was, he was part of the team that tied this allergy to ticks.
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He's an allergist and immunologist at the University of North Carolina's Medical School.
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Scott, welcome to Science Friday.
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Thanks for being here.
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I think people think of alpha-gal syndrome as a red meat allergy.
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That's the shorthand.
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But what are the symptoms?
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What are people exactly becoming allergic to?
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Okay, so this is a sugar that we must encounter all the time throughout our lives.
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So what is in the Lone Star tick that is making people sensitive to the sugar?
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I mean, can we get into the nerdy details here, though?
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Why is my body suddenly recognizing this sugar as bad when it comes from a tick, but not when it comes from a hot dog I've had the day before?
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Is an alarmin a technical term?
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You published a study recently that analyzed blood samples from people across 10 states.
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And you had this sort of amazing finding that one in four people had alpha-gal antibodies in their blood.
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What does this mean?
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Because not all those people have the syndrome, right?
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Does that mean that those people who were positive for these antibodies were bitten by a lone star tick?
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Will you define IgE for us?
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Okay.
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