5 Things Dog Owners Should Know About Ticks Ehrlichiosis is a tick-borne illness caused by the bacteria Ehrlichia. The bacteria infects white blood cells and impacts blood platelets, sometimes ...

Treatment requires a combination of antibiotics. Ehrlichia is transmitted by the Lone Star tick (pic). Cases have risen 10-fold in the past 20 years to ~2000/year. Most patients are in SE or South ...

Ridge said both ticks also carry Ehrlichia chafeensis, which causes human monocytic ehrlichiosis. Symptoms include “a sudden ...

Have you started doing yard work yet? Hiking? Do your dogs spend more time outside? You’ll want to take steps to protect ...

He also suffered from a tick-borne bacterium of the genus Ehrlichia, which can cause fever, bleeding, poor appetite and lethargy. Ehrlichiosis can be fatal if not treated. In the Philippines ...

Different rickettsiae cause multiple spotted fevers in addition to other diseases spread by ticks, including ehrlichia and anaplasma. After the bite of an infected tick, the organism spreads ...

“They’re happy to feed on many species.” Dr. Rob Poirier, Clinical Chief of Emergency Medicine at Barnes Jewish Hospital, ...

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has been diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, a form of facial paralysis he says has affected ...

Background Morgellons disease (MD) is a complex skin disorder characterized by ulcerating lesions that have protruding or embedded filaments. Many clinicians refer to this condition as delusional ...

Ticks that carry Lyme and other diseases have been out all winter but will increase as days get warmer.

TRISTAN is a 2 year old male crossbreed, currently in foster on the Essex/Suffolk border. It’s always hard to photograph ...

The business end of a blacklegged tick. Formerly called deer ticks, blacklegged ticks are unique in their ability to pick up diseases from small mammals like field mice and transmit them to humans ...