{"id":6796,"date":"2018-12-12T14:13:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2018-12-12T15:27:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T20:27:44","slug":"cnn-article-on-alpha-gal-meat-allergy-includes-comments-from-dr-scott-commins-a-leading-expert-on-this-unusual-food-allergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/cnn-article-on-alpha-gal-meat-allergy-includes-comments-from-dr-scott-commins-a-leading-expert-on-this-unusual-food-allergy\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Article on &#8220;Alpha Gal&#8221; Includes Comments From Dr. Scott Commins, a Leading Expert on This Unusual Food Allergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2018\/12\/Dr-Commins-cu-sm-sq-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2018\/12\/Dr-Commins-cu-sm-sq-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2018\/12\/Dr-Commins-cu-sm-sq.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/>Scott Commins, MD, PhD, is one of several physician-scientists in the U.S. who are actively conducting research into this allergy to meat, which is believed to be related to tick bites.\u00a0 You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/11\/health\/tick-bites-meat-allergy-intl-partner\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Commins, MD, PhD, is one of several physician-scientists in the U.S. who are actively conducting research into this allergy, which is believed to be related to tick bites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58060,"featured_media":6799,"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-6796","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>CNN Article on &quot;Alpha Gal&quot; 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