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 ...

She suffered from alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a type of allergy that is passed to humans via a single, tiny vector: the Lone Star tick. The syndrome causes an allergy to a sugar called galactose ...

“Historically, the lone star tick was kind of in a territory ... “Gently grasp the tick near its head or mouth. Don’t squeeze or crush the tick. Pull it off with a careful, steady ...

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 ...

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