Epidemiologist Elizabeth Schiffman, who supervises the Vectorborne Diseases Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, ...

In alpha-gal syndrome, the immune system overreacts to a sugar known as galactose-α-1,3-galactose, or "alpha-gal" for short.

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a rare and potentially life-threatening allergy to red meat, has long been associated with bites from the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum). However, recent findings from ...

Lyme disease gets a lot of attention, but as there's been an uptick in deer tick numbers over the years, another illness has ...

Spring may have only just started showing signs of life in northern parts of the country, but tick season has already begun.

This suggests that other types of ticks, like the black-legged tick (also called deer ... and epidemiologist with the CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, told NBC News. In the Washington ...

Dr. Megan Linske, a vector ecologist with the station ... but in Connecticut specifically.” Linske said black-legged, or deer ticks, remain the most prevalent in Connecticut.

Scientists consider these human biters the main AGS culprit, but these new cases shift the blame to deer and western black-legged ticks. This new evidence raises concerns about the spread of AGS ...

Thomas Mather, the director of URI’s Center for Vector-Borne Disease and its ... species to be wary of in New England is the black-legged tick, also called the deer tick or the bear tick.