While warmer weather brings more opportunity to spend time outdoors, it also comes with drawbacks like pesky bugs. And when those bugs — particularly mosquitoes — bite, the result can be, at best, an ...

The tick was identified as Ixodes daminii (deer tick), but no parasites where found in its mouth. Lyme disease (LD), the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, is a systemic infection ...

You can run, but you can’t hide from mosquitoes. In fact, running might make it worse—mosquitoes love it when you work up a sweat—although it’s not so much the sweat that attracts them as the carbon ...

Dr. Dylan Wyatt, an emergency medicine physician at Aspirus-St. Luke’s, shares how manage those pesky insect bites and stings. How should we take care of insect bites? Dr. Dylan: Flies, Mosquitoes, ...

The irritation from insect bites can leave people searching for quick relief, especially when faced with a seemingly endless array of products in drugstore aisles. While many over-the-counter ...

Chagas disease, a parasitic illness spread by "kissing bugs", is becoming more prevalent in the US, with human cases ...

Oropouche virus disease, sometimes called Oropouche fever or sloth fever, is an illness caused by the Oropouche virus that’s spread mostly by biting midges. Oropouche virus is found mostly in a few ...

Summer vacations to tropical destinations promise sun, fun, and memories. But some travelers are bringing home an unwelcome souvenir that’s gaining attention among health experts. The Oropouche virus, ...

I clearly remember the moment on an otherwise average day in December when I slid my hand across the slope of my shoulder, and felt a small bump. It should have been like scratching an itch or ...

If you needed another reason to be vigilant about wearing bug spray, here it is. Rays righty pitcher Ryan Pepiot told reporters that he spent 60 hours in the hospital as a result of an infection in ...