A whopping 31 million Americans are bitten by ticks each year – and the number is on the rise. According to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report from April this year, weekly rates of ER visits for tick bites are the highest for this time of year since 2017 in all parts of the US, apart from […]
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“The longer it stays latched onto your skin, the more toxin it pumps in until your legs start to give way and your face and breathing muscles begin to freeze…”
If you’re strolling through grasslands in Australia, South Africa and the US Rocky Mountains in spring and early summer it’s important to check that you haven’t picked up an unwelcome and dangerous hitchhiker. The paralysis tick is a blood-sucking insect, the adult female of which has a nasty added extra – a powerful neurotoxin in […]
Man Dies After Developing Allergy to Meat Following Tick Bite
A heartbreaking case from New Jersey has revealed the first known death tied to alpha gal syndrome, a rare meat allergy that can develop after a Lone Star tick bite. According to CBS News, researchers connected the 2024 death of a forty seven year old camper to a delayed anaphylactic reaction triggered by eating beef. […]