Tick bites linked to rare syndrome that can cause serious allergic reactions

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Alpha-gal syndrome is an allergy triggered by the saliva of certain ticks. It causes an overreaction of the immune system to a specific sugar, galactose–1,3-galactose, or alpha-gal, found in mammalian muscle tissue.

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