This is a female ‘Lone star tick’, Amblyomma americanum, and is found in the southeastern and midatlantic United States. (Credit: CDC/ Michael L. Levin, Ph. D.)

A healthy 47-year-old man from New Jersey has died after eating red meat, a death now confirmed as the first known fatality linked to Alpha‑gal syndrome (AGS), a rare meat allergy triggered by tick bites.

​The New Jersey man, an airline pilot who had no major health issues, experienced severe symptoms following the consumption of a beef steak during a camping trip in the summer of 2024.

He reported abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, and vomiting, which later subsided. ​

Approximately two weeks later, he consumed a hamburger at a barbecue, and about four hours after eating, he was found unconscious and later pronounced dead at a hospital.

​Initially, the cause of death was listed as “sudden unexplained death” due to inconclusive autopsy results. ​

However, after his wife prompted further investigation, blood samples were tested, revealing an extreme allergic reaction to alpha-gal, consistent with fatal anaphylaxis.

Autopsy lab report from Mayo Clinic Laboratories showing the victim’s extremely elevated tryptase level (>2,000 ng/mL), a hallmark of catastrophic anaphylaxis, supporting investigators’ conclusion that the man died from a fatal allergic reaction linked to tick-borne Alpha-gal syndrome.

​His wife noted that he had numerous “chigger” bites around his ankles earlier that summer, which researchers identified as likely being from the larvae of lone star ticks, the primary vector for AGS.

The allergy, known formally as Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), arises after a bite from certain ticks, notably the Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum) in the U.S., which transfers the sugar molecule alpha-gal from its saliva into a person’s bloodstream, according to the CDC.

Subsequent ingestion of mammalian meat (beef, pork, lamb) can trigger a delayed‐onset allergic reaction (3-6 hours later) that ranges from rash and nausea to full anaphylaxis.

According to the CDC, “More than 110,000 suspected cases of AGS were identified between 2010 and 2022. However, cases of AGS are not nationally notifiable to CDC. The actual number of AGS cases in the United States is not known, but as many as 450,000 people may be affected. More data and research are needed to understand how many people are affected by this condition.”

Until this case, fatal reactions had been considered theoretically possible but unconfirmed. Now, with this death documented, the medical community must treat AGS as not only serious but potentially lethal.

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota wrote:

A previously healthy New Jersey man has been identified by an allergist at the University of Virginia (UVA) and his coauthors as suffering the first documented fatality from alpha-gal syndrome, a meat allergy triggered by tick bites. The case study was published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Practice yesterday.

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The cause of death was ruled “sudden unexplained death,” after an autopsy was inconclusive, but the man’s wife gave the autopsy report to a doctor, who reached out to Thomas Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, the former chief of UVA Health’s Division of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology and first author of the case report.

Platts-Mills first identified alpha-gal syndrome in 2007 and is considered the foremost expert on the allergy.

In post-mortem blood samples, Platts-Mills found that the man had been sensitized to alpha-gal, and had had an extreme reaction, in line with what is seen in fatal anaphylaxis. Platts-Mills told CIDRAP news that the man’s tryptase level, a marker for mast-cell activation in allergic reactions, was 2,000 milligrams per milliliter. The highest tryptase level he had previously seen was 90.

Platts-Mills said the man’s wife reported he did not have recent tick bites, but had 12 or 13 chigger bites around his ankles the summer he became ill. Platts-Mills said many “chigger bites” in the Eastern United States are actually bites from lone star tick larvae.

“It is important that both doctors and patients who live in an area of the country where lone star ticks are common should be aware of the risk of sensitization,” Platts-Mills said in a UVA press release. “More specifically, if they have unexpected episodes of severe abdominal pain occurring several hours after eating mammalian meat, they should be investigated for possible sensitization to the oligosaccharide alpha-gal.”

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Indiana voters should be furious.

In a state Trump carried by 19 points, where Republicans hold a supermajority in both chambers, redistricting should have been a slam dunk to secure the 2026 midterms.

Instead, five weak-kneed RINOs tried to sabotage the redistricting vote, collapse the GOP strategy, and block a legitimate effort to strengthen Indiana’s congressional delegation against the Democrats’ national gerrymandering machine.

According to the AP, Republican Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray announced Friday that the chamber will not reconvene in December to vote on redistricting, after months of pressure from President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and even Gov. Mike Braun.

Why? Because these so-called Republicans refused to support it.

According to Trump advisor Alex Bruesewitz:

“A MONUMENTAL BETRAYAL IS UNFOLDING IN INDIANA RIGHT NOW.

Spineless RINO “legislators” have sabotaged and buried Republicans’ vital redistricting push. And they are letting Gavin Newsom & left-wing Democrats get closer to stealing the house.

The weak as hell State Senate President Rod Bray doesn’t even have the guts to put redistricting up for a vote!

I was just in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on Monday, rallying HUNDREDS of fired-up patriots who are unanimously demanding redistricting reform. Every genuine Republican across the state stands firmly behind it, yet these treacherous RINOs stonewall and sabotage at every turn.

Our party can no longer afford to harbor these gutless, self-serving traitors who stab us in the back while accomplishing absolutely nothing.

The entire MAGA movement will be mobilizing to Indiana to PRIMARY and OUST every last RINO blocking these essential reforms to RESCUE our nation, this will include the totally clueless and weak State Senate President.

Will get a full list of the RINOs who are obstructing shortly. What a disgrace!”

A MONUMENTAL BETRAYAL IS UNFOLDING IN INDIANA RIGHT NOW.

Spineless RINO “legislators” have sabotaged and buried Republicans’ vital redistricting push. And they are letting Gavin Newsom & left-wing Democrats get closer to stealing the house.

The weak as hell State Senate… https://t.co/jJ7mRaNXrq

— Alex Bruesewitz (@alexbruesewitz) November 14, 2025

THE FIVE SENATORS BLOCKING REDISTRICTING IN A DEEP-RED STATE

1. Sen. Rick Niemeyer (317-232-9489)

2. Sen. Greg Goode (317-233-0930)

3. Sen. Brian Buchanan (317-234-9441)

4. Sen. Blake Doriot (317-232-9808)

5. Sen. Dan Dernulc (317-232-9414)

These are the lawmakers who, according to Senate leadership, simply won’t provide the votes to reconvene and approve new congressional maps that would strengthen the GOP heading into a razor-tight 2026 midterm cycle.

Bruesewitz added on X, stating, “Democrats like Gavin Newsom are pulling every lever to gerrymander their states, yet a handful of legislators in Indiana won’t even force a vote. They’d rather cave to Democrats than FIGHT for America and secure the 2026 midterms. Call their offices NOW and demand they vote YES on redistricting!”

Meet 5 state Senators SABOTAGING the redistricting efforts in Indiana, a state Trump won by 19 points

Democrats like Gavin Newsom are pulling every lever to gerrymander their states, yet a handful of legislators in Indiana won’t even force a vote. They’d rather cave to… pic.twitter.com/H3k7IwnfnJ

— Alex Bruesewitz (@alexbruesewitz) November 14, 2025

While blue states like California, Illinois, Maryland, and New York aggressively redraw their maps to protect Democrats, Indiana Republicans, who hold a supermajority, can’t even muster the political courage to hold a vote.

Democrats gerrymander without shame. Republicans in deep-red states fold.

Call their offices. Demand a YES vote on redistricting. Make your voices heard.

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Screenshot pulled from a now-deleted post by Jack Schlossberg making a Nazi salute.

Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of former President John F. ​​Kennedy and a Democrat candidate for Congress in New York’s 12th Congressional District, has become the subject of controversy following the emergence of a now-deleted video in which he performs a Nazi salute.

The footage, originally posted to Schlossberg’s Instagram in January and hastily deleted after going viral, shows the 32-year-old Kennedy scion gleefully mimicking Adolf Hitler’s infamous gesture while mugging for the camera.

“Yo, yo, check this out,” Schlossberg said repeatedly into the camera as he raised his arm in the salute several times.

WATCH — A now-deleted social media post shows House candidate Jack Schlossberg repeatedly performing a Nazi salute pic.twitter.com/aDLzDc8LVQ

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) November 13, 2025

​This incident has surfaced as the unhinged Trump-hating Democrat officially announced his candidacy for the seat being vacated by Representative Jerrold Nadler.

The New York 12th District includes the Upper West Side, the Upper East Side, and Midtown Manhattan. The district’s per capita income is the highest among all districts in the US.

He wrote on Instagram:

“250 years after America was founded, and our country is at a turning point.

It’s a crisis at every level.

A cost of living crisis sponsored by the Big Beautiful Bill. Historic cuts to social programs working families rely on. Health care, education, child care.

It’s a corruption crisis. The President has made almost a billion dollars this year. He’s picking winners and losers from inside the Oval Office. It’s cronyism, not capitalism.

It’s a constitutional crisis with one dangerous man in control of all three branches of government. He’s stripping citizens of their civil rights and silencing his critics.

The worst part is: it doesn’t have to be this way. And it wasn’t, always.

We deserve better, and we can do better, and it starts with the Democratic Party winning back control of the House of Representatives.

With control of Congress, there’s nothing we can’t do. Without it, we’re helpless to a third term.

My name is Jack Schlossberg, and I’m running for Congress to represent my home, New York’s 12th congressional district, where I was born and raised, where I took the bus to school every single day from one side of the district to the other.

This is the best part of the greatest city on Earth. We have the best hospitals and schools, restaurants and museums. This is the financial and media capital of the world.

This district should have a representative who can harness the creativity, energy and drive of this district and translate that into political power in Washington.

I’m not running because I have all the answers to our problems. I’m running because the people of New York 12 do. I want to listen to your struggles, hear your stories, amplify your voice, go to Washington and execute on your behalf.

There is nowhere I’d rather be than in the arena fighting for my hometown. Over the next eight months, during the course of this campaign, I hope to meet as many of you as I can. If you see me on the street, please say hello. If I knock on your door, I hope we can have a conversation. Because politics should be personal.

Thanks more to come soon, and I’ll see you on the trail New York 12.”

JFK’s only grandson was also in another controversy for being critical of his cousin, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. ​Kennedy Jr., calling him a “dangerous person” and a “rabid dog.”

“[Trump] is so obsessed with the Kennedys, and the Kennedy name and the Kennedy brand, that he caged one and put it in his cabinet, a rabid dog in his cabinet,” Schlossberg said in an interview. “Put a collar on my cousin, RFK Jr., and has him there barking, spreading lies and spreading misinformation.”

“I don’t think it takes a genius to know that the Trump administration is the most corrupt in American history. And I don’t know who’s paying [RFK Jr.], but I know that what he’s saying isn’t making anybody healthier or safer, and that the American people should know, when he barks, who’s actually talking.”

WATCH:

BREAKING: President John F Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, says his cousin (RFK Jr.) is a RABID DOG

“A rabid dog in his cabinet put a collar on my cousin, RFK Jr., and has him there barking, spreading lies, and spreading misinformation.” pic.twitter.com/TTD6qjgXpz

— The Patriot Oasis (@ThePatriotOasis) November 12, 2025

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