Use floating row covers over seedlings and susceptible crops such as eggplants, which can be decimated by flea beetles. Keep ...

Natural remedies for flea and tick prevention. Q&A with Dr. Manny: Besides using chemical-laden repellents, are there any natural remedies I can use to keep my pets safe?

Symptoms are generally fever and enlarged lymph nodes within one to three weeks of the exposure or scratch. A scab or pustule may form at the scratch site. This also is treatable with antibiotics.

(Beyond Pesticides, January 9, 2017) After the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its recent human health risk assessment for the organophosphate insecticide (OP) tetrachlorvinphos ...

Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology - Assessing intermittent pesticide exposure from flea control collars containing the organophosphorus insecticide tetrachlorvinphos.

Children can be exposed to pesticides from numerous residential sources such as carpet, house dust, toys and clothing from treated homes, and flea control remedies on pets. In the present studies ...

Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off on private land northeast of Flagstaff.

A 74-year-old man who returned to Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, from Cambodia has been diagnosed with Murine Typhus, a flea-borne illness. After experiencing severe body pains, fatigue, and loss of ...