As summer activities ramp up and more people spend time outside, health experts are sounding the alarm on a small but serious danger: ticks. As part of our “Ask the ...

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Arizona researchers want the state's residents to send them their ticks to help track these parasites and the diseases they ...

This delayed allergic reaction is called alpha-gal syndrome. While it’s commonly called the “red meat allergy,” that nickname ...

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Tiffany Sisco said her daughter, Lilly, had seizures because of the suspected virus and is receiving intensive care.

Inside Douglas Norris' lab at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is a healthy stack of envelopes — not with letters inside, but with ticks.

According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), emergency room visits for tick bites are at ...

Public health officials are investigating whether a newborn girl on Martha’s Vineyard contracted the serious but rare ...

Multiple cases of West Nile virus have been reported here in the United States. For those unfamiliar, the virus is transmitted through mosquitoes and is most active this time of year.

The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) reports that Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is the most common tick-borne ...