内容摘要：Britain’s King Charles III, patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Queen Camilla visit the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday May 19, 2025. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)

Britain’s King Charles III, patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Queen Camilla visit the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday May 19, 2025. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)

The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Some people who develop a weird and terrifying allergy to red meat after

can still eat pork from a surprising source:created for organ transplant research.Don’t look for it in grocery stores. The company that bred these special pigs shares its small supply, for free, with allergy patients.

“We get hundreds and hundreds of orders,” said David Ayares, who heads Revivicor Inc., as he opened a freezer jammed with packages of ground pork patties, ham, ribs and pork chops.The allergy is called alpha-gal syndrome, named for a sugar that’s present in the tissues of nearly all mammals - except for people and some of our primate cousins. It can cause a serious reaction hours after eating beef, pork or any other red meat, or certain mammalian products such as milk or gelatin.

David Ayares, president and chief scientific officer of Revivicor, holds a package of frozen meat during an interview at the company’s offices in Blacksburg, Va., on May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

David Ayares, president and chief scientific officer of Revivicor, holds a package of frozen meat during an interview at the company’s offices in Blacksburg, Va., on May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)A 2023 study found that

more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades, and 175 glaciers disappeared due tobetween 2016 and 2020, mostly due to the increase in the average global temperature.

A massive debris avalanche, with the village of Kippel in the foreground, is seen on Thursday, May 29, 2025, one day after the collapse of the Birch Glacier causing the demolishing of the village of Blatten in Switzerland. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)A massive debris avalanche, with the village of Kippel in the foreground, is seen on Thursday, May 29, 2025, one day after the collapse of the Birch Glacier causing the demolishing of the village of Blatten in Switzerland. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)