Experts issue warning as risk of life-threatening disease rises in US region: 'Most vulnerable'

A new study published in the Journal of Agromedicine shows that tick-borne illnesses are spreading throughout the U.S., ...

A tick removal kit should be a staple in your house this spring

With spring weather comes spring bugs, like fleas and ticks. Get them out of your way with one of these top tick removal kits.
C&EN

α-Gal causes tick-related meat allergies—it could also be therapeutic

A close-up of a lone star tick, which has eight hairy brown legs, a bulbous brown body, a tiny white splotch on its back, and a small elongated head. Bites from the lone star tick can cause allergies ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Diversity of Tick Species (Ixodidae) Parasitizing Livestock at the Niamey Slaughterhouse and Major Livestock Markets in Niamey, Niger ()

1 Medical and Health Research Center (CERMES), Niamey, Niger. 2 Faculty of Science and Technology, Abdou Moumouni University (UAM), Niamey, Niger. 3 EGB2S Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences ...
SciELO

Identifying disease vector images in the Americas in the age of artificial intelligence

Digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) have become integral in many fields, including medicine. Neglected tropical diseases transmitted by vectors, such as arboviral diseases, spotted ...
wpi.edu

WPI Researcher Receives $542,500 Award to Identify What Makes Lyme Disease Tick

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher Jeffrey Bourgeois has been awarded a $542,500 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to identify genetic factors that influence inflammation in ...
unh.edu

Using Next Generation Sequencing to Contextualize Feeding Behavior, Pathogen Carriage, and Geospatial Distribution of the Deer Tick

The black-legged, or deer tick (Ixodes scapularis), an important vector of human and animal diseases in the northeastern United States, is well known as the primary vector of Lyme disease (Borrelia ...
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UVA researchers identify first death linked to meat allergy caused by ticks

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WSET) — University of Virginia researchers identified the first deadly case of Alpha-gal, the meat allergy linked to tick bites. This follows the unexpected death of a New Jersey ...
KHQ

Researchers identify possible first death from tick-induced meat allergy

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have reported what they believe to be the first documented death from a meat allergy caused by a tick bite. This finding was made public ...