MAINE, USA — A recent CDC study is raising new concerns about more people being at risk for a red meat allergy from deer tick bites. Scientists long believed that only the Lone Star tick was ...

There are upward of 15 different tick species in the state, though the Illinois Department of Public Health says humans will ...

According to the CDC, it is usually associated with the bite of a lone star tick in the U.S., but other kinds of ticks have not been ruled out as carriers of it. Ticks most often infect people in ...

Candace Mathis and Debbie Nichols are the co-founders of the Alpha Gal Foundation, a group they started after learning a bite from the Lone Star tick caused them to develop a serious allergy.

The most common species seen in Ohio include American dog ticks, deer ticks (also known as blacklegged ticks) and lone star ticks. Tick species vary in appearance, geographic distribution ...

The American dog tick can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia and possibly ehrlichiosis to humans. The Lone Star tick is primarily found in the southern half of Illinois, although it ...