{"id":36609,"date":"2026-09-18T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=36609"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:32:26","slug":"the-upper-valleys-widening-tick-borne-disease-problem-valley-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/the-upper-valleys-widening-tick-borne-disease-problem-valley-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Upper Valley\u2019s Widening Tick-Borne Disease Problem\u2014<em>Valley News<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vnews.com\/2026\/09\/18\/the-upper-valleys-widening-tick-borne-disease-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Dartmouth researchers are featured in coverage <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> the growing prevalence <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> tick-borne diseases in the Upper Valley, including new research linking alpha-gal antibodies to severe transfusion reactions due to alpha-gal syndrome, which can develop after a tick bite. Richard Kaufman, a pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> pathology and laboratory medicine, said Dartmouth Hitchcock has changed transfusion practices to avoid giving type O patients B or AB platelets or plasma unless necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vnews.com\/2026\/09\/18\/the-upper-valleys-widening-tick-borne-disease-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Dartmouth researchers are featured in coverage <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> the growing prevalence <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> tick-borne diseases in the Upper Valley, including new research linking alpha-gal antibodies to severe transfusion reactions due to alpha-gal syndrome, which can develop after a tick bite. Richard Kaufman, a pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> pathology and laboratory medicine, said Dartmouth Hitchcock has changed transfusion practices to avoid giving type O patients B or AB platelets or plasma unless necessary.<\/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-36609","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\/p4r3h1-9wt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36609","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=36609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36610,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36609\/revisions\/36610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}