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

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

During the larval stage, ticks only have six legs, but during the nymph phase and adulthood ... being bitten by a specific type of tick called the lone star tick. Flu-like symptoms such as ...

Nymphs are about the size of a poppy seed — tiny enough ... and painful skin ulcers. The lone star tick gets its name from a distinct white “star” or dot on the back of adult females. Males lack the ...

The beginning of fall is prime season for lone star tick nymphs, which are often confused with chiggers. These juvenile ticks are so small you can barely see them, but their bite actually causes a ...

This is in addition to its protection and prevention of fleas, ticks (black-legged and lone star), heartworms ... that can come with tick removal. Small nymphs require a bit more concentration.

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

The virus causes symptoms like fever, fatigue, nausea and diarrhea, and it’s spread by the lone star tick – the most common tick in Georgia. More than 60 cases across 14 states had been ...

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 ...

It's spread by the lone star tick, which is Georgia's most common tick. The virus has fairly routine symptoms, including fever, fatigue, nausea, and diarrhea, WABE reported. But as Arabella Lewis ...