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 ...

(NEXSTAR) — A tick known to cause meat and dairy allergies appears to be continuing its northward spread, prompting new reminders from health officials. The lone star tick, found primarily in ...

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 ...

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

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.

A Tennessee bill aims to track alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne allergy to red meat that affects thousands in the state.

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

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 ...

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 ...