A New Jersey feather has died after eating a hamburger, become the first known fatality from a meat allergy that’s caused by tick bites.

The 47-year-old victim suffered from alpha-gal syndrome, a rare but increasingly common disease spread by bites from the lone star tick.

According to researchers at the University of Virginia , the otherwise healthy airline pilot was on a camping trip with his wife and children last summer when he ate steak for dinner — and woke up hours later with stomach discomfort, diarrhea and vomiting so severe he was writing in pain.

He recovered, but two weeks later, hours after eating a hamburger, he collapsed and ultimately died at a hospital.

A growing number of cases of Alpha-gal syndrome — a rare but potentially life-threatening illness that makes pe

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