Mammalian meat allergy (MMA) is one of the few known food allergies caused by an environmental trigger—a tick bite. In simple ...

Over three decades as a GP in northern Sydney, Richard Schloeffel saw thousands of patients with complex chronic diseases. Many lived with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), ...

Just because it’s cold doesn’t mean ticks are no longer a problem. The creature recently named pest of the year by the ...

New modeling research shows ticks survive not through resistance but by exploiting where treated cattle rarely travel.

Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...

Having any kind of bug latch onto you is unpleasant, but ticks come with another level of concern given the diseases they carry. Tick repellents for humans help protect you from these blood-sucking ...

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If you've ever had a tick, you'll know how unpleasant it is when one of these little blood suckers starts making a meal of you. Most of the time tick bites are just annoying — they might hurt a bit, ...

There's a new medical issue on Martha's Vineyard, and it's impacting the way people eat. It's known as "alpha-gal syndrome," and is not a tick-borne illness, but rather an allergy in response to a ...

As the weather gets warmer, the bugs are coming out to play—and carrying nasty diseases with them. While mosquitoes and fleas carry their own set of risks, a certain type of blood-sucking bug has been ...

Theileria, a tick-borne parasite impacting cattle, may be spreading across Kansas in more ways that originally believed. The theileria parasite causes anemia-like symptoms, and it remains in infected ...