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Daily Mirror
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Charlie Duffield

Mum left allergic and breaking out in hives at SMELL of meat after bug bite years ago

A mum was left allergic to the smell of meat cooking after a tiny bug bite several years.

Bernadette Jeandell, 38, had to give up virtually anything made from mammals - including her medication - after developing Alpha-gal syndrome.

It's a potentially life-threatening condition which is spread by the bite of a tick and can leave people allergic to alpha-gal sugar molecules, which are found in the majority of mammals.

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