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New data from CDC says emergency room visits for tick bites in the Northeast are up 30%.

More than 100,000 people in the U.S. have become allergic to red meat since 2010 because of a weird syndrome triggered by tick bites; health officials believe many more have

Hamburgers, the meat bowls. >> reporter: for kim conway, it's meant changing not only what she eats but what medicines she takes and products she uses because they contain animal products. this is all of the stuff you can no longer safely take? >> correct. >> reporter: there's no treatment for the syndrome except to avoid things that trigger the allergic reaction. it's another reason to take care to avoid tick bites. >> let's get more on this mysterious syndrome. you saw dr. scott commons in the report. he is the associate chief for allergy and immunology at the south carolina school of medici...

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 allergy, which may have impacted 450,000 people already, is caused due to tick bites | World News