Oklahoma adds alpha-gal syndrome to its list of tick-borne illnesses

When Dee Nash started feeling sick, no one could figure out what was wrong. Doctors struggled to explain the hives, stomach pain and anaphylaxis that kept landing her in the emergency room.

It wasn’t until years later, in 2023, that the Guthrie woman was finally diagnosed with alpha-gal syndrome — a potentially life-threatening allergy to mammal products like red meat and dairy.

“If I had known earlier, I probably wouldn’t have gotten it, and I wouldn’t have been sick so many times,” Nash said…

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