Tag: Emory School of Medicine
Metro Atlanta is a hot bed for Lone Star ticks. Here’s what you can do to avoid them.
Alicia Tucker suffers from alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a type of allergy that is passed to humans via a single, tiny vector: the Lone Star tick. In a 2023 press release, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that up to 450,000 Americans suffer from AGS, calling it “an important emerging public health problem.”
These Georgia doctors are beginning their careers in a pandemic. Yes, it’s a little stressful.
“The way I was describing it to a friend is that it feels like we’re at summer camp getting ready to go off the diving board. But as you get close to the front of the line, someone puts a big X over the normal diving board and they point you to the Olympic-sized board instead.”
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