Ticks are parasitic arachnids that feed on the blood of mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. They vary in size and ...

The spectrum of diseases that can be caught from tick bites is wide.” Most people are familiar with blacklegged (deer) ticks and their ability to transmit Lyme disease. However, the lone star ...

The Western blacklegged tick, which can also spread Lyme disease but primarily lives on the West Coast. The lone star tick can transmit Heartland virus and Southern tick-associated rash illness.

The Lone Star tick, whose bite can lead to people developing an allergy to red meat and other foods, is found mostly in the southeastern United States, in addition to parts of the Midwest and the ...

Green, a now-retired recreational therapy professor, shared that he suffered from the allergy, which usually begins with the bite of the lone star tick. This type of tick, named because of its ...

It took doctors a long time, however, to figure out the unlikely cause: alpha-gal syndrome, also known as red meat allergy, which Wallace probably got from lone star tick bites in her backyard in ...

Goudarz Molaei is a research scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and an associate clinical professor in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale ...

Lyme-like illness (also known as southern tick-associated rash illness [STARI] or Masters disease) is vectored by the Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum). Lyme-like illness lesions, which are ...

and the back end of the female blacklegged tick is reddish-orange in appearance. The adult female Lone star tick has a distinct white spot in the very middle of her back. Tick-borne diseases of ...

9-1-1: Lone Star actor Jim Parrack knows what makes his character Judd tick. "It's family," the True Blood alum tells Entertainment Weekly of the "spine" that subconsciously guides everything his ...