Q. You’ve written about treating chigger bites, but you should really think about prevention. We live in the country. When ...

One tip: walk in the center of the trail. Ticks like to attach themselves to long grasses. No need to use DEET.

Leona Maguire told Golfweek she is still dealing with tick bites she received during the U.S. Women's open in Wisconsin last ...

Permethrin is odorless and colorless, and insects can’t detect its presence, she adds. That helps make it effective. In one ...

It's officially summer, a time for barbecues, the beach—and protecting yourself against the teeny, tiny black-legged deer ...

We live in Wisconsin, and this year we’ re seeing a lot of news about ticks carrying Lyme disease and a few other kinds I hadn’ t heard of before. Here in the United States, Lyme disease is the most ...

Q: We live in Wisconsin, and this year we're seeing a lot of news about ticks carrying Lyme disease and a few other kinds I ...

"The populations are out of control,” said York Emergency Management Director Nicole Pestana on the tick surge at local parks.

Treat your shoes and your clothing with permethrin if you can, uh, treating your footwear alone, you're 70 times less likely to contract *** tick-borne disease. Doing tick checks and showering ...

Treating items with the insect repellent permethrin has been shown to help prevent tick bites. Simply spray permethrin on clothing and gear (especially shoes), and then wait for it to dry.

“I treat all the types of shoes that are going to be worn in tick habitat. ... Permethrin can also be sprayed on clothing and other gear. But don’t use it on your skin.

Change into clean clothes. Infants ages 2 months and younger and pregnant women will use a topical sulphur ointment rather than permethrin. ... the treatment will be permethrin for 7 days.