What you need to know about this summer's tick population and how to stay safe
There's no denying it, ticks are out and about this summer. The Eagle spoke with tick experts about what they're seeing and how to stay safe.
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There's no denying it, ticks are out and about this summer. The Eagle spoke with tick experts about what they're seeing and how to stay safe.
A 28-year-old man says he has been left with a potentially life-threatening allergy to red meat after being bitten by a tick.
The CDC says that a red meat allergy caused by spit from tick bites is getting more common.
Amer americans. >> reporter: kim conway loved to garden in her back yard in howell, new jersey. >> i was cleaning out my gardens on may 13th and found a tick in the middle of my back on may 14th. two weeks later i had red meat for the first time and i became violently ill. >> reporter: conway developed a sudden allergy to red meat, which she'd eaten before without issue. the reason why might surprise you, the bite of a lone star tick. >> humans get tick bites. that seems to develop into an allergic response to a sugar that is in all lower mammals. so anything that's cows, pigs, sheep, deer. so...
The CDC says that a red meat allergy caused by spit from tick bites is getting more common.