Texans, beware of the big, bad “lone star” tick this summer. The arachnid is found in the eastern, southeastern, and south-central United States, and if you get bit, it can end your meat ...

It sounds like the plot of a second-rate horror movie: fleet-footed ticks that hatch “bombs” of hundreds of hungry biting ...

The Lone Star tick, whose bite can lead to people developing an allergy to red meat and other foods, is found mostly in the southeastern United States, in addition to parts of the Midwest and the ...

The lone star tick, which carries the Heartland virus and has long been widespread across the South and Mid-Atlantic, is expanding north and west as the climate warms. The black legged tick ...

I attended a conference about ticks presented by Dr. Susan Little, one of the country’s top authorities on veterinary ...

This story and visualization are part of our new “Data In Your Life” series, in which we mine public databases to tell quick ...

A tick bite triggered a life-threatening allergy to meat in an Asbury Park woman. Here's how living with alpha-gal syndrome ...

Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI) can produce a red, bull's-eye rash and other symptoms like Lyme disease. STARI is transmitted by lone star ticks, but the exact cause is unknown.

US scientists have traced alpha-gal to saliva from the lone star tick. The tick is identified by the white spot on its back and is mostly found in southern and eastern parts of the US. But experts ...

The allergy to mammalian meat like beef, pork, and lamb that's spread by a bite from a lone star tick is different. "The weird thing about [this reaction] is it can occur within three to 10 or 12 ...

Lone Peak’s Bella Devey (10) is welcomed by teammate Paige Headricks after scoring a goal against American Fork in a high school girls soccer match on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024.

The lone star tick causes Alpha-gal Syndrome, also known as the meat allergy, and it’s a species of concern that is being found more often in the Midwest.