Not only various types of mosqui\u00adtoes torment us and some\u00adtimes put our health in danger \u2014 arach\u00adnids are also out to get us. Ticks belong to this class. Now a possible conse\u00adquence of tick bites has drawn atten\u00adtion, which, in contrast to TBE and Lyme disease, has hardly been noticed so far.<\/p>\n
Blame the sudden spot\u00adlight on a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that more than 110,000 cases of suspected meat allergy, or so-called \u03b1\u2011gal syndrome (AGS), occurred in the U.S. between 2010 and 2022. All the more surpri\u00adsing, accor\u00adding to a survey by the CDC, 42% of health care workers there have never heard of this disease. Symptoms range from indi\u00adges\u00adtion and diar\u00adrhea to poten\u00adti\u00adally life-threa\u00adtening allergic reac\u00adtions. The culprit in the plight: The bite of the lone star tick.<\/p>\n
In Germany: wood tick instead of lone star<\/p>\n
Now, in Germany and in Europe as a whole, this parti\u00adcular tick species is not found \u2014 but unfort\u00adu\u00adna\u00adtely, this is no reason for us to relax on our walk in the woods. Ixodes species, inclu\u00adding the native common wood tick (Ixodes ricinus), can also trigger the syndrome.<\/p>\n
Nati\u00adon\u00adwide, there have been about 100 cases so far \u2014 this is the esti\u00admate of the Euro\u00adpean Centre for Allergy Rese\u00adarch Foun\u00adda\u00adtion. An inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion by Munich\u2019s Klinikum rechts der Isar even reve\u00adaled a corre\u00adspon\u00adding sensi\u00adtiza\u00adtion for about 35 percent of the forest workers and hunters examined.<\/p>\n
What can we do? If you want to enjoy your steak safely in the future, you should take appro\u00adpriate measures: Avoid areas where ticks predo\u00admi\u00adnate, cover the body suffi\u00adci\u00adently with clot\u00adhing and use insect repell\u00adents. At home, it is essen\u00adtial to check your body to see if there is a tick anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not only various types of mosqui\u00adtoes torment us and some\u00adtimes put our health in danger \u2014 arach\u00adnids are also out to get us. Ticks belong to this class. Now a possible conse\u00adquence of tick bites has drawn atten\u00adtion, which, in contrast to TBE and Lyme disease, has hardly been noticed so far. Blame the sudden spotlight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"yoast_head":"\n