The lone star tick can transmit alpha-gal syndrome to humans through its saliva. The CDC says that up to 450,000 people might have been affected by the syndrome and not have reported it.

Lone star tick bites can cause alpha-gal syndrome, a food allergy to red meat that comes from mammals. Such meat includes beef, pork, lamb, and other animal flesh products.

The lone star tick's most distinctive feature is its star-like white splotch, found on adult females. While other ticks spread germs that cause more widely known diseases, like Lyme, a bite from ...

Lone Star Tick: How to protect yourself & recognize the symptoms of a bite Lone star ticks used to be found mostly in the Southeastern U.S., but that’s changing. To stream WFMY News 2 on your ...

The lone star tick's most distinctive feature is its starlike white splotch, found on adult females. And while other ticks spread germs that cause more widely known diseases like Lyme, ...

Dorsal view of a female lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum), 2006. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / Dr Amanda Loftis, Dr William Nicholson, Dr Will Reeves, Dr Chris Paddock.

The lone star tick used to be found mostly in the southeastern US By Consumer Reports • Published May 22, 2024 • Updated on May 23, 2024 at 5:47 pm BOOKMARKER ...

The lone star tick gets its name from the sometimes star-shaped white spot on its back. It's brown in color, similar to wood and deer ticks. "It's still a really uncommon tick ...

Climate change fueling increase of lone star tick sightings in Minnesota 04:37. MINNEAPOLIS --Human-influenced climate change is making many impacts across the upper Midwest, but one might have ...

In New York, the lone star tick bite disease risk was by far the highest in Suffolk County, which had about 3,700 suspected alpha-gal syndrome cases from 2017 to 2021, or 4% of the total cases in ...