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There's a new medical issue on Martha's Vineyard, and it's impacting the way people eat. It's known as "alpha-gal syndrome," ...
Climate change may be helping longhorned ticks spread Ehrlichiosis across the U.S. more effectively. The infection hospitalizes around 60% of patients and can be fatal.
The invasive longhorned tick species is posing new health risks as scientists warn that it could potentially lead to an ...
A Boston baby is hospitalized with seizures and brain damage after a tick bite on Martha's Vineyard may have led to Powassan ...
A mom says her infant daughter may be the patient that health officials said is under investigation for having a rare ...
Islanders’ diets are being upended by an onslaught of alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-induced allergy to meat and dairy.
Public health officials are investigating whether a newborn girl on Martha’s Vineyard contracted the serious but rare ...
More people are being diagnosed with a syndrome that can cause hives, stomach pain and nausea after eating certain animal ...
The study, published Friday in the journal iScience, was conducted by researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment ...
Ticks do have immune systems but they operate very differently from ours. Like humans, ticks have cellular signalling pathways that help detect and respond to infection. Known as Toll, IMD and ...
Parents of five-week-old Lily Sisco say their daughter is a “fighter” as they struggle with the potential long-lasting ...
You know Lyme disease. But across areas of the Northeast, incidents of "anaplasmosis" – a different vector-borne illness – ...