A decade of cases suggests the threat is broader than once believed. Dispatch: Alpha-Gal Syndrome after Ixodes scapularis Tick Bite and Statewide Surveillance, Maine, USA, 2014–2023. Image ...

The team created a novel tick antigen library housing over 3,000 different proteins, testing each to create a target cocktail ...

Two more kinds of ticks can cause red meat allergies than previously thought. See the new species, learn where all 3 live, ...

New research led by Yale School of Medicine (YSM) advances the goals of creating a diagnostic test and vaccines for ...

“Your blood count is dangerously low,” the doctor said over the phone. “I’m sending an ambulance to take you to the hospital ...

In the second study, researchers traced back a case of alpha-gal in Maine likely caused by the bite of an Ixodes scapularis tick, or deer tick. Though lone star ticks have rarely been found in ...

Both women reported being bitten by ticks, which suggests that other species — including Ixodes scapularis, also called black-legged or deer ticks — may also be associated with alpha-gal ...

a growing problem driven in the U.S. by black-legged ticks (or Ixodes scapularis). Researchers have been trying for decades to understand just how the tiny tick is able to evade the human body’s ...

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a rare and potentially life-threatening allergy to red meat, has long been associated with bites ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with the Maine CDC and other institutions, has confirmed that black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) may be responsible for ...