Scientists have confirmed the first death linked to a severe meat allergy caused by a tick bite. The man, who died in 2024 after eating a burger, had alpha-gal syndrome, a disease triggered by tick ...

At a more micro level, the top five tick-infested cities in the U.S., in descending order, are New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., according to the report.

Marine J. Petit receives funding from European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 890970. A tiny tick crawls across your skin, ...

Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, the number of infectious diseases in humans has been increasing as approximately 335 human infectious diseases have emerged since 1940 (Jones et al., 2008; ...