That rate far exceeds the estimated 450,000 US adults who have alpha-gal syndrome, a potentially deadly allergy to red meat and dairy products typically brought on by a tick bite.
As ticks expand into new geographic areas, taking steps to avoid tick bites is the best prevention strategy.
Patients being misled by a “chronic Lyme” diagnosis is the first wrong. Now the government has compounded it.
The plan includes funding for a pilot program aimed at controlling tick populations and finding better Lyme disease and alpha-gal syndrome treatments.
An estimated 450,000 Americans are affected by alpha-gal syndrome.
Although the new vaccine fell short of its primary goal, it showed ‘clinically meaningful’ results in a secondary analysis.
Though deadly anaphylaxis had been considered a theoretical outcome of the allergy, it had not yet been seen until this case.
A high percentage of respondents said they were aware of the tick-borne disease and spent time outdoors, but less than half said they took measures to prevent infection.
An investigation is under way into exactly where the patient contracted the infection.
Authors recorded an annual growth in cases of 14.2%.
