New research from the CDC is exposing surprising new culprits behind a growing meat allergy. The tick menace is even worse ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a warning that a rare red meat allergy is now being ...

The CDC confirms that black-legged ticks can trigger red meat allergy in humans expanding concerns beyond lone star ticks ...

Researchers confirmed that black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) can trigger alpha-gal syndrome in humans. A 10-year ...

The alpha-gal syndrome is thought to be triggered by bites from the lone star tick. Emerging evidence suggests other ticks—found in other parts of the country—may also cause it. Most cases, scientists ...

Alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy caused by a bite from the lone star tick, may also be triggered by the deer tick and the western black-legged tick.

Two Emerging Infectious Diseases studies link bites from black-legged (deer) and western black-legged ticks to potentially ...

Most people exposed to the parasites behind babesiosis don't get sick, but for others, the infection can be deadly.

BILLINGS — A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme ...

In the fall of 2023, a tick was found on a bird dog after a hunting trip near Richey in Dawson County, eastern Montana. While ...

Eric Siegel, a Ph.D. student in microbiologist Stephen Rich’s Laboratory of Medical Zoology and at the UMass Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-borne Diseases (NEWVEC), has been ...

Ticks are the most versatile arthropod diseases vectors capable to transmit the broadest spectrum of pathogens comprising viruses, bacteria, protozoa, fungi and nematodes to their vertebrate hosts ...