Being bit by the Lone Star tick can make humans fatally allergic to animal meat, warns Dr Thomas Platts-Mills.

Hyderabad: Even as neighbouring Andhra Pradesh reported a sharp rise in scrub typhus cases — at least 11 deaths and over ...

A rare tick-borne allergy linked to red meat has now been confirmed as deadly for the first time. A healthy New Jersey man ...

While most the time itchy skin is harmless, a constant itch could be a telltale sign of a potentially deadly disease - including pancreatic cancer THERE are few things as satisfying as scratching an ...

Sudden tickles inside your nostrils that make you rub, sniff or scratch is something most of us experience every now and then. Getting an itchy nose is also very common during peak winter months, and ...

You spend a perfectly nice Saturday pulling weeds, trimming roses and finally conquering that corner of the yard that’s been giving you side-eye since spring. You feel productive, a little sunburned ...

You spend a perfectly nice Saturday pulling weeds, trimming roses and finally conquering that corner of the yard that’s been giving you side-eye since spring. You feel productive, a little sunburned ...

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 ...

Chiggers are small red insects that will leave itchy bites on you and your pets. They like shady, moist environments, so cut back tall grass and remove shady spots in your yard to deter them. You can ...