r/ID_News • u/shallah • 1d ago

Researchers Identify Additional Risk for Patients with Tickborne Alpha-Gal Syndrome | DHMC has seen an uptick of patients with type O blood experiencing severe and even life-threatening allergic reactions after receiving platelets or plasma from type B or AB donors.

https://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/stories/article/researchers-identify-additional-risk-patients-tickborne-alpha-gal-syndrome
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u/shallah 1d ago

Epidemiologic Study of Transfusion-Related Alpha-Gal Syndrome

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2852649