Veterinary researchers have confirmed a previously unknown tick-borne infection in dogs, and the discovery is sharpening ...

Mammalian meat allergy (MMA) is one of the few known food allergies caused by an environmental trigger—a tick bite. In simple ...

Key points Mammalian meat allergy is an allergy to a sugar molecule found in most mammals triggered in some by a tick bite.

Anaplasmosis is caused by the bacterium Anaplasma marginale, which attacks red blood cells. The disease is primarily spread ...

Doctors nationwide are seeing cases of alpha-gal syndrome, which triggers severe allergic reactions to unusual substances like red meat. It's caused by a tick bite.

Anaplasmosis is caused by the bacterium Anaplasma marginale, which attacks red blood cells. The disease is primarily spread ...

As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their ...

FOOTBALL TO HUNTING AND HIKING. BUT THERE’S A RENEWED WARNING TO BE TICK AWARE AS MORE PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY ARE BEING DIAGNOSED WITH A TICK BORNE ILLNESS CALLED ALPHA-GAL SYNDROME. ALPHA-GAL IS A ...

These tiny, innumerable arachnids—known as ticks—can be hard to spot, but their bite can lead to several serious medical conditions in humans, such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and ...

Scientists in the Cooley Lab at MSU in the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology are infecting ticks with the bacteria borrelia, the primary cause of Lyme disease, which allows them to study how ...

A JetBlue pilot’s illness looked like food poisoning, but it was actually an increasingly common tick-borne meat allergy that can be fatal. By Joseph Goldstein The 47-year-old JetBlue pilot went to a ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A previously unexplained death of a New Jersey man has led to a medical discovery. The 47-year-old father had collapsed and died in his home unexpectedly in 2024. An autopsy ...