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If you’re already ticked off about the hot weather, wait until you hear about this — the tick-borne-illness, babesiosis, has ...
Experts are warning medical professionals and those who venture outdoors to be aware of a tick-borne illness that is moving ...
As summer calls us outdoors, a crucial health warning emerges from medical experts. While Lyme disease often grabs headlines, a lesser-known but increasingly concerning tick-borne illness, babesiosis, ...
Virginia has reported a dramatic spread in tick-borne illnesses in suburban neighborhoods. It's expected to get worse.
A malaria-like disease spread by ticks is moving into Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia The tick that causes Lyme can also spread babesiosis — and researchers fear doctors in the mid-Atlantic don ...
I was quickly diagnosed with a wheat allergy, so for 11 years, every time I would get sick, I thought I had been contaminated by wheat.” Debbie Nichols does not remember the tick that transmitted her ...
Virginia has not been immune to the spread of the longhorned tick. The tick has been spreading rapidly into the state's cattle regions in particular, threatening Virginia's cattle industry. As of 2023 ...
A Virginia family is still in shock after their 4-year-old daughter Ruby nearly died after being bitten by a tick, and they are cautioning other parents to be careful.
Va. (WSET) — Health officials with the Virginia Department of Health are putting together a tick survey. The goal is to help people identify which tick bit them, so you can know if you need to ...
Gaff, who leads ODU’s Tick Research Team, headed a group involved in the study that collected ticks at 18 sites in eastern Virginia. Out of more than 1,200 ticks they collected, eight were found ...