With summer comes insect bites. Most insect stings result in small, local reactions, and these can be treated by ...

Chronic Lyme disease isn't recognized by conventional medicine. It's a controversial term used by some alternative practitioners to describe pain, fatigue and neurological symptoms they attribute to a ...

The test detects Borrelia bacteria directly from skin interstitial fluid samples from people with signs of tick bites or erythema migrans.

Breakthrough device status for rapid, Point-of-Need molecular diagnostic platform will fill critical gap in early-stage detection of Borrelia bacteria, the cause of Lyme diseaseParis, France, January ...

A 58-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital 3 weeks after lumbar surgery because of diplopia and fever. Left leg pain and a rash had preceded the fever and diplopia. A diagnosis was made.

The life span of a deer tick is about two years and they develop through three stages: larva, nymph and adult. Their bite is painless and often is unnoticed, but they can carry Lyme disease. Photo ...

A close-up of a lone star tick, which has eight hairy brown legs, a bulbous brown body, a tiny white splotch on its back, and a small elongated head. Bites from the lone star tick can cause allergies ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ticks are spreading farther across the United States, and tick-borne illnesses are rising. The Alliance for Camp ...

Researchers say they believe they've documented the first known death from alpha-gal syndrome — a red meat allergy caused by tick bites. The findings, by researchers at the University of Virginia ...