A tick which doctors found in the ear of a 9-year-old boy. New England Journal of Medicine. Despite the odd sensation in his ear, the boy wasn't suffering from any pain or tinnitus, and his ...

Kentucky electrical worker Chris Prater douses himself in insect repellent every day to beat the bugs he encounters on the job. But all his spraying couldn't spare him from a pernicious tick that ...

Before Prater could wrap his head around it, the doctor numbed his eye and plucked the pest out with tweezers. The tick made a "little popping sound" as it was pulled out, he said.

Boy had serious headaches, fever. It was sign of ehrlichiosis, a lesser known tick-borne disease that can cause seizures, death. It can be treated with antibiotics.

On June 28, almost two weeks after Jonny’s tick was removed, his daycare called to report he was mopey, didn’t want to eat lunch and was “not acting himself,” Simoson said.

August 01, 2022 3-year-old Pennsylvania boy battles rare Powassan virus complications from tick bite Jonny Simoson developed meningoencephalitis after his family found the insect on his back in June ...

"A tiny tick could have taken our sweet boy from us. We are so lucky to be able to share his story," Jonny Simoson's mom Jamie Simoson told PEOPLE on Saturday A 3-year-old boy in Pennsylvania was ...