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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251217082457.htm

This article reports the first death due to alpha gal allergy. Getting
bitten by a tick can sometimes make your immune system sensitive to
alpha gal a sugar that is on mammalian glycoproteins. If you are
allergic to alpha gal you become allergic to red meat (mammal meat).

After a chigger episode I became allergic to pork. I could still eat
beef, lamb, and cheese, but I could not eat pork. I would break out in
a rash. I would get a rash just by going to Denny's restaurant,
probably because the environment was saturated with bacon particles.

I went to an allergist and found out that I wasn't allergic to alpha
gal, but the allergist told me that I could expect things to get worse,
and that eventually I would become allergic to all red meat. It took
more than a decade but I did become allergic to beef and probably all
red meat, but I haven't bothered testing. Now anything with milk or
cheese in it makes me break out in a rash. I can still eat fish and
chicken with no issues, so I do not know what I am allergic to. I'm
allergic to something pigs have, and eventually became allergic to what
cattle have, but fish and birds do not have what I am allergic to.

Humans can become sensitive to alpha gal because old world monkeys and
apes (including humans) have a defective gene, that other animals
including new world monkeys still have a functional copy of, that
attaches alpha gal to glycoproteins.

Just something crazy about the immune system and descent with
modification. If it wasn't for one of our monkey ancestors we wouldn't
have this problem.

Ron Okimoto

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RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251217082457.htm

This article reports the first death due to alpha gal allergy. Getting bitten by a tick can sometimes make your immune system sensitive to
alpha gal a sugar that is on mammalian glycoproteins. If you are
allergic to alpha gal you become allergic to red meat (mammal meat).

After a chigger episode I became allergic to pork. I could still eat
beef, lamb, and cheese, but I could not eat pork. I would break out in
a rash. I would get a rash just by going to Denny's restaurant,
probably because the environment was saturated with bacon particles.

I went to an allergist and found out that I wasn't allergic to alpha
gal, but the allergist told me that I could expect things to get worse,
and that eventually I would become allergic to all red meat. It took
more than a decade but I did become allergic to beef and probably all
red meat, but I haven't bothered testing. Now anything with milk or
cheese in it makes me break out in a rash. I can still eat fish and
chicken with no issues, so I do not know what I am allergic to. I'm allergic to something pigs have, and eventually became allergic to what cattle have, but fish and birds do not have what I am allergic to.

Humans can become sensitive to alpha gal because old world monkeys and
apes (including humans) have a defective gene, that other animals
including new world monkeys still have a functional copy of, that
attaches alpha gal to glycoproteins.

Just something crazy about the immune system and descent with
modification. If it wasn't for one of our monkey ancestors we wouldn't
have this problem.

Then why are there still monkeys?

Ron Okimoto

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