“Alpha-gal syndrome is triggered when a tick bite causes a person’s immune system to develop an allergic reaction to meat, including beef, pork or lamb.”

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    4 days ago

    Iirc there is a good follow up episode on this as well from Radiolab.

    Wild that no one believed it at first. Short amount of time for this to change, eh?

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      4 days ago

      I really liked the follow up. Yeah it was the alpha gal free pigs. They did a good job