{"id":5861,"date":"2018-08-07T11:26:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2018-08-20T11:40:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T15:40:05","slug":"dr-onyinye-iweala-interviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/dr-onyinye-iweala-interviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Onyinye Iweala Interviewed by Voice Of America News Service Regarding Alpha Gal Meat Allergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2018\/08\/Tarc-New-Post-3-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2018\/08\/Tarc-New-Post-3-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2018\/08\/Tarc-New-Post-3-150x226.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2018\/08\/Tarc-New-Post-3.jpeg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Awareness among the medical community and consumers is increasing regarding a still poorly understood food allergy named alpha gal, in which some people who are bitten by ticks subsequently develop an allergy to meat. Physician-scientists in the UNC Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology are leading the way in helping shed new light on this very unusual allergy. Onyinye Iweala, MD, PhD, was recently quoted as an expert source for a news story, in which she provides perspective regarding the increasing prevalence of this condition in the U.S. and in other countries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can access the story via\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/identified-cases-of-tick-borne-meat-allergy-may-be-on-the-rise\/4507560.html\" target=\"_self\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awareness among the medical community and consumers is increasing regarding a still poorly understood food allergy named alpha gal, in which some people who are bitten by ticks subsequently develop an allergy to meat. 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Onyinye Iweala, MD, PhD, was recently quoted as an expert source for a news story, in which she provides perspective regarding the increasing prevalence of this condition in the U.S. and in other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84796,"featured_media":5855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Onyinye Iweala Interviewed by Voice Of America News Service Regarding Alpha Gal Meat Allergy | Thurston Arthritis Research Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/dr-onyinye-iweala-interviewed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Onyinye Iweala Interviewed by Voice Of America News Service Regarding Alpha Gal Meat Allergy | Thurston Arthritis Research Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Awareness among the medical community and consumers is increasing regarding a still poorly understood food allergy named alpha gal, in which some people who are bitten by ticks subsequently develop an allergy to meat. 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