A 21-year-old woman became dizzy and hard of hearing before doctors found a parasite in her ear. J A Uppendahl via Unsplash Most people have experienced a kind of ringing or buzzing in their ears ...

But for a 21-year-old woman from Dharan, Nepal, the eerie sound ringing in her ear was indicative of something much more serious — a parasite. The woman arrived in an otorhinolaryngology, or ear, nose ...

The wood tick (dog tick) is the size of an apple seed. After feeding, it can double or triple in size. Sometimes, it can pass on Rocky Mountain spotted fever or Colorado tick fever. The deer tick is ...

In Tallahassee, which has a big chapter in the Civil Rights Movement (Google “Tallahassee Bus Boycotts” to learn more), the ...

Case numbers of the infectious disease tularemia, also termed 'rabbit fever', have jumped in the United States over ... including bites from infected ticks and deer flies, and skin contact with ...

With urging from his wife, Hinton headed to the reservation's tribal hospital, where he was diagnosed with Rocky Mountain ...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is the deadliest tick-borne disease in the U.S. It's been a persistent problem on some tribal lands in the Southwest, where residents are at particular risk ...

(Pien Huang | NPR) With urging from his wife, Hinton headed to the reservation's tribal hospital, where he was diagnosed with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever — the deadliest tick-borne disease in ...

As feral hog populations increase in Texas and the U.S., they create desirable conditions for disease-carrying ticks and increase the risk for an outbreak of African swine fever virus. To ensure ...

SAN CARLOS APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION, ARIZ. — It's golden hour on an early December day at a cattle ranch on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. The sun is low, and the bulls have settled into ...