"After months of investigation, a team of scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine determined the 47-year-old airline pilot died from alpha-gal syndrome, an allergy to red meat and other products from mammals that can unknowingly develop after a tick bite. According to researchers, the man, who has not been identified, had two extreme reactions to eating beef in the summer of 2024, after he'd been bitten multiple times by lone star ticks."
"Despite telling one of his sons that he thought he was going to die, the symptoms subsided after a few hours so he didn't go see a doctor. Two weeks later, in September 2024, the man again started feeling sick about four hours after eating a hamburger at a barbeque. His son found him unconscious on the bathroom floor with vomit around him and called 911."
A 47-year-old New Jersey airline pilot experienced two severe delayed allergic reactions to mammalian meat months after multiple lone star tick bites. The first reaction produced severe diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain about four hours after eating steak and resolved within hours without medical care. Two weeks later he became sick about four hours after eating a hamburger, was found unconscious, transported to a hospital and died within hours. Autopsy showed no cardiac cause. Postmortem blood analysis linked the reactions to alpha-gal syndrome and concluded untreated anaphylaxis caused the death.
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