{"id":36493,"date":"2026-08-24T12:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=36493"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:54:18","slug":"ticks-spreading-that-meat-allergy-disease-are-also-messing-with-blood-donations-concord-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/ticks-spreading-that-meat-allergy-disease-are-also-messing-with-blood-donations-concord-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticks Spreading That Meat-Allergy Disease Are Also Messing With Blood Donations\u2014<em>Concord Monitor<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/2026\/08\/24\/ticks-spreading-that-meat-allergy-disease-are-also-messing-with-blood-donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Nancy Dunbar and Richard Kaufman, pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essors <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> pathology and laboratory medicine, co-led a study finding that alpha-gal syndrome can trigger severe allergic reactions in some blood transfusion recipients. \"We anticipate that this will change transfusion practices in the U.S., at least in AGS high-prevalence regions,\" Kaufman said. (Similar coverage in <a title=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=4fbe6ead3f&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=4fbe6ead3f&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" data-outlook-id=\"dbb458e4-6ef5-4333-8fd3-de13253d7a26\">Medical Daily<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/2026\/08\/24\/ticks-spreading-that-meat-allergy-disease-are-also-messing-with-blood-donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Nancy Dunbar and Richard Kaufman, pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essors <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> pathology and laboratory medicine, co-led a study finding that alpha-gal syndrome can trigger severe allergic reactions in some blood transfusion recipients. &#8220;We anticipate that this will change transfusion practices in the U.S., at least in AGS high-prevalence regions,&#8221; Kaufman said. (Similar coverage in <a title=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=4fbe6ead3f&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=4fbe6ead3f&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" data-outlook-id=\"dbb458e4-6ef5-4333-8fd3-de13253d7a26\">Medical Daily<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-9uB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36494,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36493\/revisions\/36494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}