Knowing what to look for can help you identify a tick bite more quickly and, if necessary, get treatment too. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as "tick season" these days. With changing climate ...

A research lab focusing on ticks has embarked on a project to assess how effective preventive Lyme disease measures are and ...

FOR the first time, a deadly brain swelling disease has been detected in British patients with no travel history – which ...

Knowing what to look for can help you identify a tick bite more quickly and, if necessary, get treatment too. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as "tick season" these days. With changing ...

Since the time she fell suddenly ill when she was 12 years old, Heather Farrier battled mysterious and debilitating symptoms ...

The bill would add alpha-gal syndrome to the Tennessee Department of Health's list of reportable conditions and diseases.

Wearing protective clothing, using repellents, and doing thorough tick checks are key to preventing tick bites and Lyme ...

Treatment: You'll need to remove the tick if you find one buried in your skin. Then wash the area with soap and water and treat any mild allergic symptoms with an OTC antihistamine. Chigger bites ...

Tick bites are often harmless ... Rash Fever Headache Muscle or joint pain Fatigue Any following treatment for a tick-borne illness will depend on how severe it is, but in most cases, you can ...

Lyme disease is still the state’s most common reported tick-borne disease, but two other diseases – human anaplasmosis and babesiosis – can result from deer tick bites in ...

Lyme disease spreads through a bite from an infected blacklegged tick, and symptoms include headache ... diagnosis, or treatment. Health is part of the Dotdash Meredith publishing family.

The allergy, known as alpha-gal syndrome, affects hundreds of thousands of Americans and is particularly prevalent in the southeastern United States.