Researchers confirmed that black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) can trigger alpha-gal syndrome in humans. A 10-year ...

The CDC confirms that black-legged ticks can trigger red meat allergy in humans expanding concerns beyond lone star ticks ...

New research from the CDC is exposing surprising new culprits behind a growing meat allergy. The tick menace is even worse ...

Alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy caused by a bite from the lone star tick, may also be triggered by the deer tick and the western black-legged tick.

Both women reported being bitten by ticks, which suggests that other species — including Ixodes scapularis, also called black-legged or deer ticks — may also be associated with alpha-gal ...

BILLINGS — A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme ...

The alpha-gal syndrome is thought to be triggered by bites from the lone star tick. Emerging evidence suggests other ticks—found in other parts of the country—may also cause it. Most cases, scientists ...

Two Emerging Infectious Diseases studies link bites from black-legged (deer) and western black-legged ticks to potentially ...

Eric Siegel, a Ph.D. student in microbiologist Stephen Rich’s Laboratory of Medical Zoology and at the UMass Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-borne Diseases (NEWVEC), has been ...

Most people exposed to the parasites behind babesiosis don't get sick, but for others, the infection can be deadly.