May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and spring is one of the most important times of year to become “tick smart” by learning ...

This is a fairly new one when it comes to tick-borne illnesses. Alpha-gal syndrome is a rare but potentially life-threatening allergy to pork, beef, rabbit, lamb, and/or venison, and byproducts of ...

Typically, the signs and symptoms of these illnesses don’t ... Symptoms usually appear 3 to 16 days after a tick bite. The same ticks that carry Lyme Disease can also transmit Ehrlichiosis at the same ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to examine the reasons behind rising rates of tick bites and the expanding regions ...

THE HSE has issued an urgent warning over a bacterial infection caught outdoors in summer months that can lead to serious illness. And up to 400 people in Ireland are affected by the disease each ...

Mice overcame a Lyme disease infection after being given an antibiotic that is often used for pneumonia, and its effect on ...

Oct. 23, 2024 — Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in Europe. Up to 70,000 new cases are estimated each year in Austria alone. The bacterial infection can cause ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. As the temperatures rise and people spend more time outdoors, tick bites become more common. Ali Moresco has Lyme Disease and is the ...

significantly raising the risk of Lyme disease across the region. Understanding how to identify ticks, prevent bites and properly manage them if they occur is crucial to safeguarding your family's ...

In today’s Health Alert, tick season is back and so is the threat of Lyme disease. But, there is good news on the medical ...

Both adults and nymphs can transmit Lyme disease, but it takes 36 to 48 hours after an infected tick has attached itself to a person to transmit the bacterium. Most deer tick bites will not ...