A bite from the lone star tick, often found in East Tennessee, can cause someone to develop alpha-gal syndrome — effectively ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Other common ticks, such as dog ticks, lone star ticks, and Gulf Coast ticks, do not carry Lyme disease. You can only get Lyme disease if an infected tick bites you. You can't get it from a tick ...

The allergy, known as alpha-gal syndrome, affects hundreds of thousands of Americans and is particularly prevalent in the southeastern United States.

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.

“So, 2012, 12 cases, and then the (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... “Historically, the lone star tick was kind of in a territory — the southeastern United States ...