You can get Lyme disease when a tick bites you, spreading a specific type of bacteria. Dr. Bobbi Pritt, a pathologist who specializes in the laboratory diagnosis of vector-borne and parasitic ...

With the warm weather comes deer ticks. They carry not only Lyme disease but also ... 15 minutes after a tick bites you," said Jarnefeld. Unlike other tick-borne diseases, there is no treatment ...

Therefore, diagnosis in the early phase is frequently based on symptoms and the likelihood of a deer tick bite. Early detection means early treatment when the disease is most effectively controlled ...

Alpha-gal syndrome, or AGS, is one tick-triggered allergy that can change what you eat, the medications you tolerate and how ...

Lyme disease is probably the most widely known disease that can result from a bite from the black-legged tick (a.k.a. deer tick, Ixodes scapularis). According to Purdue Medical Entomology, the ...

But spending more time among nature means a heightened risk of tick bites, which can, in some cases, result in Lyme disease. Dr Hannah Godfrey, vet at Petsure, warned: “You can recognise a tick ...

As warmer months are approaching, a local health expert has started sounding the alarm on the dangers of tick season — ...

The team created a novel tick antigen library housing over 3,000 different proteins, testing each to create a target cocktail ...

Doctors explain everything you need to know about Lyme disease and what to do if you find a tick attached to your skin.

“bites from infected ticks are responsible for about half a million new illnesses each year in the U.S. And those numbers are rising.” While Tick-Borne Conditions United notes that Lyme ...