{"id":6882,"date":"2019-01-08T14:08:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2019-01-08T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:08:35","slug":"dr-scott-commins-featured-in-national-tv-news-stories-regarding-alpha-gal-meat-allergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/dr-scott-commins-featured-in-national-tv-news-stories-regarding-alpha-gal-meat-allergy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Scott Commins Featured in National TV News Stories Regarding &#8220;Alpha Gal&#8221; Meat Allergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6885\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2019\/01\/IMG_4802-Dr-Commins-TV-Interview-rtp2-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2019\/01\/IMG_4802-Dr-Commins-TV-Interview-rtp2-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2019\/01\/IMG_4802-Dr-Commins-TV-Interview-rtp2-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2019\/01\/IMG_4802-Dr-Commins-TV-Interview-rtp2-1024x797.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2019\/01\/IMG_4802-Dr-Commins-TV-Interview-rtp2-658x512.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Despite increasing awareness, there are still many cases in which patients don&#8217;t know for months or even years that they have this unusual allergy to meat.\u00a0 Dr. Commins is conducting innovative research and helping to spread the word.\u00a0\u00a0A recent interview with Dr. Commins has resulted in a number of TV stations running informative\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/health\/health-beat-mystery-meat-allergy\/970113652\">news stories about the allergy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite increasing awareness, there are still many cases in which patients don&#8217;t know for months or even years that they have this unusual allergy.\u00a0 Dr. Commins is conducting innovative research and helping to spread the word.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58060,"featured_media":6885,"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-6882","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. Scott Commins Featured in National TV News Stories Regarding &quot;Alpha Gal&quot; 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