Ticks are awful, but chiggers in many ways are as bad if not worse. You can see ticks, even in the tiny larval phase to which we often refer to as seed ticks. It's easy to hate a malignancy that we ...

Q Any advice on controlling chiggers? When I work in the yard, they eat me alive unless I wear long pants. My wife does not ...

Q Any advice on controlling chiggers? When I work in the yard, they eat me alive unless I wear long pants. My wife does not garden and is rarely bitten.

The first person has died due to alpha-gal syndrome, a life-threatening allergy to red meat that can manifest following a tick bite. The unidentified 47-year-old New Jersey man had been healthy up ...

It’s summertime in Florida and that brings many wonderful things like long days at the beach, pool, lake or one of the state’s thousands of freshwater springs. But summer also brings more bugs, and ...

(NEXSTAR) – Researchers with the University of Virginia have identified a deceased 47-year-old pilot from New Jersey as the first documented death caused by alpha-gal syndrome, an allergy acquired ...

An airline pilot from New Jersey is the first person to have died of alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy triggered by tick bites, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine ...