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When You Get Bitten By A Tick, Here's What Could Happen To Your Body

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Nothing can ruin a beautiful day spent out of doors than finding a tick attached to your body. Ticks are common all throughout the United ...
WGRZ

Tick season has arrived. Protect yourself with these tips

NEW YORK — Tick season is starting across the U.S., and experts are warning the bloodsuckers may be as plentiful as ever. Another mild winter and other favorable factors likely means the 2024 tick ...
Orlando Sentinel

Tick check: How to keep the small, blood-sucking parasites at bay for humans and pets

Outdoor enthusiasts and dog owners have a common enemy in the wild: ticks. The bloodsucking parasites come in different varieties, but tend to be especially pervasive in certain parts of natural ...
High Plains Journal

Alpha-gal Syndrome: The “red meat allergy” caused by ticks

HPJ Field Editor Lacey Vilhauer explains AGS, otherwise known as "red meat allergy" and how to protect yourself from ...

First Reported Alpha-Gal Syndrome Death, Meat Allergy From Tick Bite

The lone star tick along with the alpha-gal syndrome seems to be spreading in the U.S. Now there's been the first reported ...
VTDigger

Melinda Moulton: Ticks and humans are a dangerous mix — our personal story

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Post and Courier

Tick-borne diseases can affect both humans and pets

Ticks are creepy, no question about it. But, they are more than just creepy. They carry nasty diseases that both our pets and we as humans can acquire. In fact, ticks transmit more diseases in the ...
Hartford Courant

Foreign ticks ‘hitchhiking on humans’ to CT may be bringing unknown diseases

New species of ticks are arriving from overseas, and they may be bringing diseases that are unfamiliar to American doctors, according to Goudarz Molaei, chief scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural ...
STAT

I’m a tick biologist whose body seems to kill off ticks

Sometimes people call me “the tick guy,” but I’m a mammal guy by training. Although I respect ticks, I don’t fear them, especially after developing an immunity that kills them when they try to bite me ...
KSL

Have Utah's tick numbers ticked up? What the state's recent climate means for ticks, humans, pets and wildlife

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A red meat allergy caused by ticks killed a N.J. man. Here's what to know

Researchers say they believe they've documented the first known death from alpha-gal syndrome — a red meat allergy caused by tick bites. The findings, by researchers at the University of Virginia ...