It’s also unclear how the chemicals that are often used in tick repellents can affect the rest of your pregnancy. Many of them simply haven’t been studied to see if they cause birth defects.

Ticks are spreading globally and bringing familiar conditions such as Lyme disease with them, as well as totally new ones.

Platts-Mills was also one of the first scientists to identify the tick-inflicted meat allergy in 2002. “Most likely the fire ants kill pregnant [tick] mothers and eat [her] eggs or babies,” he ...

The exception is pregnant women, who can transmit it to their fetus. Lyme disease is a systemic infection caused by spirochete bacteria transmitted by black-legged deer ticks. The corkscrew-shaped ...

Study: Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Pregnant Woman and Long-Term Sequelae. Image Credit: KPixMining/Shutterstock The majority of infections caused by the TBEV European subtype remain asymptomatic.