May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. As the temperatures rise and people spend more time outdoors, tick bites become more common.

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 ...

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 ...

Lyme disease may be difficult to diagnose as people can have common and unspecific symptoms, like a headache or fever, and they may not notice or remember a tick bite. Ticks live in areas of overgrown ...

Lyme disease may be difficult to diagnose as people can have common and unspecific symptoms, like a headache or fever, and they may not notice or remember a tick bite. Ticks live in areas of ...

Climate change and growing deer populations have helped Lyme disease proliferate in New England. But there are several ways ...

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 ...

THINK spring and the health hazard that likely jumps to the forefront of your mind is hay fever. And while this time of the ...