Behnam Keshavarz, UVA Health (IMAGE)

University of Virginia Health System

Behnam Keshavarz, UVA Health

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"We did not set out to study fire ants, but when the number of alpha-gal cases in the Gulf Coast was consistently lower than we expected, the fire ant emerged as an interesting explanation," said UVA researcher Behnam Keshavarz, PhD, a co-first author of a new scientific paper outlining the discovery.

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