Tick bites often go unnoticed at first, but they can carry serious health risks. These tiny parasites can carry diseases such ...

Ticks have been known to transmit diseases to humans, such as Lyme disease, babesiosis or Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but now a recently discovered red meat allergy could become more common. The red ...

Did you know a tick bite can make you allergic to red meat? If you get bitten by an infected creepy-crawly, you might have to kiss steak, hamburgers, pulled pork or venison goodbye. It's one of the ...

Cathy Raley’s first bout of hives woke her in the middle of the night with itchy bumps that crept up her arms and spread to her legs and back. Her second bout took her to the hospital. It was a June ...

It’s rare, but in some cases a tick bite can cause a person to develop an allergy to red meat. Most cases, scientists believe, are linked to the lone star tick, a species typically found in the ...

A red meat allergy from tick bites is spreading, and the lone star tick isn’t the only alpha-gal carrier to worry about Hours after savoring that perfectly grilled steak on a beautiful summer evening, ...

It turns out that Lyme disease isn't the only thing to worry about when you get a tick bite. While people have long been taught to be wary of deer ticks, which can carry Lyme disease, now people have ...

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An airline pilot from New Jersey is the first person to have died of alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy triggered by tick bites, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine ...

Deep in their bellies, ticks carry diseases like Lyme Disease, ehrlichiosis, and Rocky Spotted Mountain Fever.

Warm weather in New Jersey means more time spent enjoying the great outdoors and, increasingly, more time spent in the emergency room for a tick-borne illness. Bites from ticks are responsible for ...