By Dan Stark Tick season is in full swing on the East End, as more people spend time outside in warm weather, creating more ...

Indiana has six ticks that spread diseases and illnesses to people. Each of them has more than one pathogen that they can spread.

The disease is triggered when a tick bites a human and transmits a sugar known as alpha-gal into the bloodstream. Ticks pick ...

In 2023, the Centers for Disease Control reported that an estimated 450,000 Americans suffered from alpha-gal syndrome or AGS. Numbers may be higher since AGS is not a reportable condition, which ...

MAINE, USA — A recent CDC study is raising new concerns about more people being at risk for a red meat allergy from deer tick bites. Scientists long believed that only the Lone Star tick was ...

Most lone star ticks were discovered on people's ... Even if a person doesn't get a disease from a tick, if it bites them, Green said there can be infections that can cause future health issues.

The number of Lyme disease cases in the state has increased ... They are: Of these species, the Blacklegged tick, American dog tick and Lone Star tick are the most common in Ohio.

Babesiosis is rare — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports around 2,000 cases in the United States every ...

Lyme disease can cause rash and flu-like symptoms ... Recent research has also linked the lone star tick to the “alpha-gal allergy” where the tick bite can result in the person developing ...

The lone star tick is most active from April through the end of July. Diseases this tick carries include ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia and alpha-gal syndrome, which is a ...