Alpha-gal syndrome is a strange tick-borne illness that induces an allergy to a specific type of sugar found in red meat.

Ticks are small, and you might not notice when they bite, but the diseases they carry can dramatically harm your health. Each ...

Rep. Morgan Griffith would love to eat an all-beef hot dog. But the eight-term Virginia Republican from one of the biggest ...

Tick season is booming, and with it come fears over a potentially deadly tick-borne allergy to meat. Discovered just under 20 ...

Experts share tips to avoid the blood-sucking pests that can transmit Lyme disease and other illnesses on to humans ...

In some parts of the US, up to 30 percent of people may carry the antibody behind a red meat allergy spurred by tick bites, far exceeding the estimated number of people who actually have the allergy, ...

Ticks are spreading new diseases faster than ever—and one virus family may already be evading our immune system.

Populations of the little bloodsuckers are surging in the Midwest and northeast right now, meaning the risk of tick-borne ...

The United States is on track to record its worst tick season in a decade, raising concerns about life-altering and ...

TIOGA COUNTY, N.Y. (WETM) – The Tioga County Public Health Office has shared ways to try to keep yourself and your family ...

The tiniest menace of summer doesn’t care if you’re hiking through the woods, walking the dog or pulling weeds in your ...

Move over, Lyme disease - there's another tick-borne disease to worry about in Canada. Anaplasmosis, the second most common tick-borne disease in the country, can cause a range of health issues, ...