Thomas Platts-Mills of the University of Virginia, an allergy researcher, stumbled on the cause while studying a mysterious sensitivity to a cancer drug in some patients. The drug also contains alpha-gal. He noticed most of the allergic patients came from rural areas in the southeastern United State
Date: Aug 10, 2014
Category: Health
Source: Google
Bad Bite: Tick Can Trigger Meat Allergy, Doctors Say
ge for an allergic reaction the next time the person eats red meat. At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, "I see two to three new cases every week," said Dr. Scott Commins, who with a colleague, Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, published the first paper tying the tick to the illness in 2011.
at the University of Virginia made the connection. Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills led the team that noticed the trend of people developing the allergy later in life. After reporting this finding in 2009, his team worked with other research institutions and concluded in 2011 that tick bites were the cause.