TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas researchers are monitoring the spread of an invasive tick species that poses a threat to the state’s cattle through a dangerous blood parasite. Kansas cattle ranchers are facing ...

With pesticide resistance emerging, researchers evaluated the efficacy of organic compounds for controlling the pest.

Tick-borne diseases are spreading into new parts of the United States at a pace that has caught public health officials off guard. Babesiosis, a potentially fatal parasitic infection once confined to ...

One Missouri representative is seeking to pass a law that would mandate the state to track and record cases of the tick-borne ...

Theileria orientalis ikeda was first detected in Missouri in June 2023 and has since been reported in 60 counties. With the westward movement of this disease, it is critical to understand how it ...

Managing alpha-gal syndrome, a tickborne allergy to mammalian products like red meat and dairy, can be hard for anyone. But for Missouri farmers who are in close contact with cattle, the allergy can ...

An Australian teenager who died after eating beef sausages on a camping trip has been confirmed as the nation's first death from a tick-induced meat allergy. New South Wales Deputy State Coroner ...

A 47-year-old New Jersey man is the first known person to die from an allergy to red meat caused by alpha-gal syndrome, a disease transmitted by various ticks. A study published Wednesday in the ...