A man has been left with a life-threatening syndrome which has given him an incurable meat allergy after he was bitten by a tick.
Craig Smith, 62, from New Jersey, US, was bitten by a lone-star tick and he now suffers from alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), meaning he can no longer eat meat including steak, burgers and pulled pork.
Mr Smith is among the soaring number of New Jersey residents in America to be diagnosed with alpha-gal syndrome, a once rare and potentially life-threating food allergy.
