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For some time I have been following alarming cases where people have developed an allergy to red meat in adulthood, after previously eating it happily all their lives. The trigger was a tick bite.

The condition is in the news in America after the first known case of someone dying from an allergic reaction to eating red meat. New Feature

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Red meat allergy is a lot rarer in the UK, with only a few dozen recent cases known about.

But UK experts have told me that they think many cases may be going un

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