Strangely, I looked up the abstract and the PDF include a reference to a prior study of apparent University of Virginia students, and seemingly most were before the vaccines were available. The incidence of a-gal allergies was 26%.
This tells me the vaccines may help against a-gal, if so, because those who got the vaccine only had a 17.3% a-gal allergy.
Now, before there’s a freakout, virtually no one had any problem with eating beef. In the vaccinated group in the study reported above, just 2% had a real allergy they were aware of.
This may also just point out that tick bites are common in Virginia (duh), and that a lot of ticks have this problem.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8804535/pdf/main.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_syndrome
Been around for 20 years. I’ve had it for almost that long on and off. It tends to wane over time for some people. If I go several months without a Lone Star tick bite, I can eat steak again. If I get bit again, allergy time. I also recently tried a desensitization protocol that I saw a study on and it seemed to work.
You would think I’d move to the city or up North but nope. I’ll stay here in the forest.