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‘Ticks EVERYWHERE?’: Sightings and bites in the D.C. region heighten worries
Tick-related emergency room visits are at the highest since 2019, CDC data shows. The Northeast region has seen the most this ...
Tick bites are sending more people to the ER this summer. Experts explain why.
Emergency room visits for tick bites this year are at the highest levels since 2019, especially in the Northeast, according ...
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What’s Going Around: Strep, hand, foot and mouth, tick bites
UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing viral upper respiratory infections. Pediatricians at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital are seeing cases of swimmer’s ear, ...
Tick bite at golf course sends STL man to ICU
For Skip Kernan, 65, it wasn’t a hike in the woods that led to a medical emergency. It was a day on the golf course.
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Northeast sees surge in tick bites
The risk of getting a tick-borne disease in the Northeast is on the rise this summer, according to the CDC, which is ...
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'Tick bite at agricultural show left me so ill I couldn't get out of my car'
Shortly after he arrived, Stuart suddenly took ill and was so debilitated he couldn’t get out of the car. “My heart rate was ...
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Bite from this tick could cause red meat allergy
Unlike other food allergies that occur within minutes after ingestion, like peanut or wheat, symptoms from eating red meat such as beef, pork, lamb, or venison, can occur three to eight hours after ...
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Spike in tick bites raises concerns at Hudson Valley summer camps
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 127 out of every 100,000 ER visits this year were due to tick bites — the highest rate since 2017.