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Opinions expressed by contributors are their own. Dr. Eleanor Saunders is an Infectious Diseases physician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Saunders received her MD & MPH from the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, completed residency in Internal Medicine at Bellevue Hospital/NYU Langone Health, and completed fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at UNC. Dr. Saunders works on the epidemiology of alpha-gal syndrome with Dr. Scott Commins, one of the foremost experts on AGS.

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Understanding Alpha-gal Syndrome and Its Growing Geographic Overlap with Lyme Disease
January 15, 2026
Learn about alpha-gal syndrome, a tickborne allergy to red meat, its causes, symptoms, testing, and relation to Lyme disease- as well as prevention tips and current research insights. The Basics