Doctors across the nation are seeing a surge of sudden meat allergies in longtime carnivores who were bitten by lone star ticks. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
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Over the past decade, more than 100,000 people in the U.S. have developed an allergy to red meat triggered by the bite of a lone star tick.
Unlike most ticks, which passively wait for an animal to latch on to, lone star ticks can identify a potential host and quickly crawl toward them.
Thangamani: “I call them, like, a hunter tick.”
