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Climate change could help ticks spread diseases via migrating birds
A new study suggests that it’s getting easier for ticks to survive and spread thanks to climate change. The post Climate ...
Tick Invasions Take Flight: The Climate Link to Global Pathogen Spread
Ticks have always traveled on migrating birds — but the rising temperatures of the climate crisis mean they may now survive ...
How hitchhiking ticks are bringing diseases to new places
Ticks are some of Earth’s most effective disease vectors. They can connect humans and domestic animals to diseases that ...
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Thousands of people are now allergic to meat because of tick bites. An expert says 'this is just the tip of the iceberg.'
The cause is the lone star tick; one-quarter of an inch in length, one bite from this tick can result in an red meat allergy to red meat — and sometimes meat byproducts like dairy — that lasts ...
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The Asian longhorned tick spreading across the US can clone itself thousands of times and even kill cattle
"There were just thousands of ticks present," she said. "I knew immediately that we were not dealing with a tick that we know to be native to the United States." "They just show up in such ...
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EPA Orders Warning Labels on Seresto Flea Collars Linked to Thousands of Pet Injuries, Deaths
WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency today ordered warning labels be placed on Seresto flea and tick collars, which have been linked to tens of thousands of pet injuries and deaths in ...