Getting a tick bite can be understandably scary: They're most often discussed in the context of people developing Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that can either be easily treated if caught ...

New cases of alpha-gal syndrome — a rare but potentially life-threatening illness that makes people violently allergic to red meat — suggest that more tick species may be to blame than ...

Ticks, once latched onto a fleshy target with their barbed, needle-like mouths, are ready for almost anything. They glue themselves to the skin using a complex, cement-like substance. And then ...

Some tick bites can cause Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), making people allergic to red meat and some other mammal products. Three tick species in the U.S. are known to transmit AGS: the lone star tick ...

There have been 14 distinct species of tick recorded in New York by Upstate Medical University’s tickMAP. Other recorded species include the Asian longhorn tick and Ixodes cookei. Research has ...