Platts-Mills and Commins said the allergic reaction is specifically related to the common lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum).
CNN: Ticks causing mysterious meat allergy
"The answer to the allergy is sugar, " said Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, who discovered the allergy with his junior colleague Dr. Scott Commins.
"Perhaps there is an organism in the tick's saliva that makes a person allergic to the alpha-gal sugar in mammalian meat, " Commins said.
However, Commins did explain that if a person were to avoid tick bites for some time, he or she could become less allergic to meat.
"There is no current medication to treat food allergies, " Commins said.
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