Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: A recent study on Lyme Disease suggests that people who are bitten by

can't "allergy to meat" also function as an object of the verb "believe"? Using "allergy to meat" as an object, the sentence would essentially say "Scientists believe allergy to meat to be turning into an epidemic" (Scientists believe X to be Y). Interpreted this way, the sentence has not a grammatical issue but a meaning issue i.e., how can scientists believe an allergy to be something?

In summary, is it fair to say that
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