May marks Lyme Disease Awareness Month, a time to learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones from tick bites. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread through the bite of infected ...

Mosquitos are drawn to people for a variety of reasons including blood type, odor and even the color of clothing you're ...

While early predictions have warned of a potential surge in mosquito numbers this summer, some are sounding the alarm on a different bloodsucker – ticks are back in business in parts of Minnesota.

The brown recluse and black widow are the most common venomous spiders in the U.S.. What are their habitats? Know how to prevent a bite.

One bug to beware of is the tick. If a tick bite goes unnoticed, it can develop into Lyme disease and anaplasmosis in humans.

What is Lyme disease? And how to avoid tick bites - With summer approaching and more time spent outdoors, how can you best ...

Tick bites are increasing alpha-gal meat allergy cases, especially in fragmented suburban and forested landscapes.

For a bug repellent that’s safe and effective ... treated sneakers and socks were 73.6 times less likely to have a tick bite than subjects wearing untreated footware.” High concentrations ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Ticks can spread Lyme disease and give people red meat allergies, and now there’s increasing worry in Minnesota about another ailment spread by the blood-sucking pests: the Powassan virus. While the ...

Expect a usual amount of ticks and mosquitos this summer. In Wisconsin, that's a lot. Here are 5 strategies to keep them and ...

But spending more time among nature means a heightened risk of tick bites, which can, in some cases, result in Lyme disease. Dr Hannah Godfrey, vet at Petsure, warned: “You can recognise a tick ...