The lone star tick can transmit Heartland virus and Southern ... to use a pair of very pointy tweezers to grab as close to the head as possible, and then gently and steadily pull up," Frye explains.

As the calendar turns to warmer months, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning about the ...

The spectrum of diseases that can be caught from tick bites is wide.” Most people are familiar with blacklegged (deer) ticks and their ability to transmit Lyme disease. However, the lone star ...

Alicia Tucker suffers from alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a type of allergy that is passed to humans via a single, tiny vector: ...

In the foreground is the mouthpart of an American dog tick, and to the rear is a lone star tick mouthpart. A tick’s mouth has two sets of sharp hooks to break through the host’s skin so the tick can ...

Alpha-gal syndrome, affects hundreds of thousands of Americans and is particularly prevalent in the southeastern United ...

Lyme-like illness (also known as southern tick-associated rash illness [STARI] or Masters disease) is vectored by the Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum). Lyme-like illness lesions, which are ...

Goudarz Molaei is a research scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and an associate clinical professor in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale ...

It's most commonly spread by the lone star tick — a common species of tick in rural areas of East Tennessee. The bill, HB 0383, was introduced by Representative Ed Butler (R-Rickman) and would ...