This allergy has been around for years. I joined an alpha gal group on FB and have read where some people have had this twenty years although they didn't know at the time what it was. Normal blood levels without alpha gal is .035. Mine was 7.2 which means it's twenty one times above normal. I have read where some people's levels are 40,50 and even a 100 times above normal. One lady was so severely allergic that she could go full blown allergic to just the smoke from a grill cooking red meat. In due time I may be able to eat red meat again but all in all its not as bad as it seems.Do the larval "seed ticks" carry it that you know of? I got absolutely worn out by them a few weeks ago. Not showing any symptoms or anything, but it's definitely concerning because my line of work finds me regularly picking seed ticks off of me this time of year.