Alpha-gal syndrome, affects hundreds of thousands of Americans and is particularly prevalent in the southeastern United ...

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 ...

Alicia Tucker suffers from alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a type of allergy that is passed to humans via a single, tiny vector: the Lone Star tick. In a 2023 press release, the Centers for Disease Control ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Studies indicate that less than 10% of people bitten by the Lone Star tick ever develop an allergic reaction to red meat ...