Getting a tick bite doesn't automatically spell medical emergency, but it is important to know what to do next.

A tick bite occurs when a tick pierces the skin and attaches itself to a warm-blooded host. Once attached, a tick may feed on its host’s blood for several days. Most tick bites are harmless and ...

Getting a tick bite can be understandably scary: They're most often discussed in the context of people developing Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that can either be easily treated if caught ...

Two more kinds of ticks can cause red meat allergies than previously thought. See the new species, learn where all 3 live, ...

“It also may be absent in 20-30% of cases and can be hard to see on darker skin tones.” Park added that this rash typically appears within three to 30 days following a tick bite. Between COVID, the ...

Weather: Warm temperatures mean ticks are active in upstate NY: What to know ER tick bite reporting in the Northeast hit 53 ...

Weather: Warm temperatures mean ticks are active in upstate NY: What to know ER tick bite reporting in the Northeast hit 53 visits for tick bites per 100,000 ER visits in March. That's above ...

Did you know a tick bite can make you allergic to red meat? If you get bitten by an infected creepy-crawly, you might have to kiss steak, hamburgers, pulled pork or venison goodbye. It's one of ...

But for reasons we’re still trying to understand, a tick bite can sometimes cause our bodies to develop an overactive immune response to alpha-gal, essentially making us allergic to red meat and ...