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.

The Lone Star tick was the most prevalent. And the "range and abundance" of Lone Star ticks has increased over the last 20 to 30 years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

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.

These Pictures Can Help You Identify a Tick Bite “The lone star tick is common in the southeastern part of the U.S.,” says Mike Merchant, Ph.D., a professor and urban entomologist at Texas A&M ...

If you’re bitten by a lone star tick and get the short end of the stick, what you really become allergic to is a carbohydrate called galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose.

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 May Be Spreading A New Disease : Shots - Health News An uptick in cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever might actually be due to a newer tick-borne bacterium. It looks like it's ...

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, ...

The Lone Star tick, a type of tick that’s known to cause some people it bites to develop an allergy to red meat, has reportedly been found in northern Wisconsin — a rare occurrence as these ...

The lone star tick, more common to the Southwest, is slowly pushing its way north and into New York state. They are already abundant on Long Island. Of the 84 ticks sent to his lab from Suffolk ...

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — The nice weather is drawing an unwanted pest outdoors. This year, a word of caution about the lone star tick. Climate change has allowed the lone star tick to track ...

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 ...