{"id":36495,"date":"2026-08-25T12:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=36495"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:56:18","slug":"study-finds-alpha-gal-syndrome-can-cause-severe-allergic-reactions-to-blood-transfusions-for-some-new-hampshire-public-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/study-finds-alpha-gal-syndrome-can-cause-severe-allergic-reactions-to-blood-transfusions-for-some-new-hampshire-public-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Finds Alpha-Gal Syndrome Can Cause Severe Allergic Reactions to Blood Transfusions for Some\u2014<em>New Hampshire Public Radio<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/health\/2026-08-25\/study-alpha-gal-syndrome-tick-severe-reaction-blood-transfusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Anne Hoen, a pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> epidemiology, is featured in coverage <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> a Dartmouth study finding that some patients with type O blood and alpha-gal antibodies can have severe allergic reactions to certain plasma or platelet transfusions. \"Even if it's an abundance <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> caution, it could save the patient's life,\" Hoen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/health\/2026-08-25\/study-alpha-gal-syndrome-tick-severe-reaction-blood-transfusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Anne Hoen, a pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> epidemiology, is featured in coverage <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> a Dartmouth study finding that some patients with type O blood and alpha-gal antibodies can have severe allergic reactions to certain plasma or platelet transfusions. &#8220;Even if it&#8217;s an abundance <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> caution, it could save the patient&#8217;s life,&#8221; Hoen said.<\/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-36495","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\/p4r3h1-9uD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495","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=36495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36496,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495\/revisions\/36496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}