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.

This bug spray is formulated with 15 percent DEET, which as Dr. Rose mentioned, isa safe concentration for pregnant people. The EPA-registered formula can repel mosquitos, ticks, chiggers ...

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 ...

Pregnant ticks gain a lot of weight. In fact, after females mate and as they feed on a host’s blood, they quickly grow to about 100 times their original size. Researchers have long suspected ...

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.

An invasive bug called the Asian longhorned tick that carries a parasite called theileria orientalis ikeda continues to ...

"We were able to carefully dissect [pregnant] female ticks to surgically remove the organ responsible for coating the eggs with wax, but still allowing the females to lay viable eggs. These wax ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on July 25 to include additional information about the length of time a tick must be attached to transmit Lyme disease bacteria. So you've found a tick ...