Vinegar, especially 30% “cleaning vinegar” is extremely acidic and can cause chemical burns. This, too, will damage the soil ...

Deer-tick illnesses such as anaplasmosis and babesiosis—a bacterial infection and a parasitic disease similar to malaria, ... In November, O’Brien pulled a bloated tick from her neck.

The Mayo Clinic lists symptoms of the early stage occurring three to 30 days after an infected tick has bitten you.

Deer ticks exist in wooded areas and can carry a bacteria which causes infection. ... If Lyme disease is not treated, it may cause other symptoms such as severe headache and neck stiffness, ...

The black-legged tick, often referred to as a deer tick, can carry Lyme disease, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, ... A stiff neck and swollen lymph nodes are associated with Lyme disease.

The patient was one of three Powassan virus cases reported in Wisconsin so far this year, all of which required ...

The lone star tick likes to attach behind the knees, around the waist, in the groin, under the arms and on the neck and head. • Wash clothes in hot water and dry on high heat to kill whatever ...

New deer feeders will begin treating white-tailed deer for ticks in four Howard County parks as part of a five-year study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service… ...

Ticks by nature crawl up — to the top of the grass stem, to your crotch, up your back and onto your neck. Deer ticks also carry diseases; they are very small, hard to see, very easy to overlook.

ORONO, Maine (AP) — More than a third of the deer ticks submitted to a Maine lab last year tested positive for Lyme disease, a surveillance report from the lab said. The report is from the ...

Lake County officials are warning residents to beware of ticks this spring as the number of confirmed Lyme disease cases almost tripled in 2013 to 46, up from 17 in 2012.The deer tick, also called ...