A tick which doctors found in the ear of a 9-year-old boy. New England Journal of Medicine. Despite the odd sensation in his ear, the boy wasn't suffering from any pain or tinnitus, and his ...

Kentucky electrical worker Chris Prater douses himself in insect repellent every day to beat the bugs he encounters on the job. But all his spraying couldn't spare him from a pernicious tick that ...

So, the boy had to have surgery to remove the tick, and doctors had to use fine instruments so they wouldn’t damage his eardrum. It was later tested and identified as a dog tick (pictured above).

Before Prater could wrap his head around it, the doctor numbed his eye and plucked the pest out with tweezers. The tick made a "little popping sound" as it was pulled out, he said.

Three days after a 9-year-old Connecticut boy started to hear a strange buzzing sound in his ear, his parents took him to a doctor at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. The boy reported that he ...

A 9-year-old Connecticut boy felt a strange sensation and heard buzzing in his ear. When checked by doctors, they were surprised to see a tick was implanted in the “ear drum.” ...

Boy had serious headaches, fever. It was sign of ehrlichiosis, a lesser known tick-borne disease that can cause seizures, death. It can be treated with antibiotics.

A boy who slipped into a coma last week after his mom said he contracted Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick bite woke up just in time for his second birthday. Kayla Oblisk thought nothing of … ...

A 9-year-old boy who heard a buzzing sound in his ear turned out to have a tick attached to his eardrum. Above, an image of the tick inside the boy's ear. (Image credit: The New England Journal of ...