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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," ...
The last of 12 cooling towers that tested positive for the bacteria currently spawning a Legionnaires’ outbreak in Harlem is ...
Islanders’ diets are being upended by an onslaught of alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-induced allergy to meat and dairy.
Climate change may be helping longhorned ticks spread Ehrlichiosis across the U.S. more effectively. The infection ...
New England is warming faster than the rest of the world, which has correlated with a marked uptick in cases of tick-borne ...
You know Lyme disease. But across areas of the Northeast, incidents of "anaplasmosis" – a different vector-borne illness – ...
More people are being diagnosed with a syndrome that can cause hives, stomach pain and nausea after eating certain animal ...
A Boston baby is hospitalized with seizures and brain damage after a tick bite on Martha's Vineyard may have led to Powassan ...
Therefore it’s important for people to be able to recognise what tick bites look like, and the tell-tale red rash that can be the first sign that a person has Lyme disease. A tick bite usually results ...
The invasive longhorned tick species is posing new health risks as scientists warn that it could potentially lead to an ...
“Since 2008, the CAES has documented nearly 20 nonnative ticks found on human travelers returning from Central America, ...