However, the lone star tick is an aggressive tick species that is becoming more common in the U.S. In a national survey of ticks on dogs and cats, more than 23 percent of dogs were infested with ...

The Lone Star tick, whose bite can lead to people developing ... according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They have been found in large numbers from Maine to central ...

Goudarz Molaei is a research scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and an associate clinical professor in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale ...

New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ... US scientists have traced alpha-gal to saliva from the lone star tick. The tick is identified by the white spot ...

It took doctors a long time, however, to figure out the unlikely cause: alpha-gal syndrome, also known as red meat allergy, which Wallace probably got from lone star tick bites in her backyard in ...

Here’s what infectious disease doctors want you to know about ... Alpha-gal syndrome is mostly linked with the bite of an infected lone star tick, which is more common in the South, East and ...

AGS is, he says, 'completely unrelated' to Lyme disease, which is 'an infection ... regions of the US where a specific tick, called the Lone Star, is 'the source of alpha-gal transfer to humans ...

Lone Star ticks spread an allergy to red meat and products derived from animals. People who develop this allergy may also become more likely to develop heart disease, according to a new study.

K-State researchers and extension specialists have teamed up on a project to help alleviate the negative impacts of an allergy to red meat that affects a growing number of people.