Tag: Lone Star tick
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.”
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