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Topic: ticks

In this photograph taken on June 4, 2023, shows locusts feeding on grassland during a locusts swarm at Kandali area in Sholgara district, Balkh province. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change will help locusts

Matthew Rozsa
Tick Reaching For Human Leg (Getty Images/kmatija)

Desperate Lyme patients lack answers

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Engorged Deer Tick. Deer ticks (also called black-legged ticks) and can transmit the pathogens that cause tickborne diseases such babesiosis and Lyme disease. (IMAGE POINT FR/NIH/NIAID/BSIP //Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Where is the Lyme disease vaccine?

Matthew Rozsa
Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) on human skin (Getty Images/epantha)

A mysterious tick-related meat allergy

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Ticks spreading brain-swelling illness

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Nesting bald eagle with baby (Getty Images/Mark Newman)

Climate change's surprise effects

Matthew Rozsa
Shadow of a tick on a leaf (Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Deer-tick virus could be next epidemic

Matthew Rozsa
Tick on skin (Getty Images/nechaev-kon)

mRNA vaccine for tick-borne illness?

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Tick on skin (Getty Images/nechaev-kon)

Ticks, mosquitoes and climate change

Matthew Rozsa
Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Why ticks are out of control this year

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A medical worker communicates with a patient at Xiaotangshan Hospital in Beijing, capital of China, March 30, 2020 (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao via Getty Images)

Lyme disease symptoms look like COVID

Jory Brinkerhoff - The Conversation
Deer are seen in a field on October 10, 2019 in Winterset, Iowa. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Wildlife policy for the 21st century

Elyse DeFranco - Undark
A picture taken at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) in Maison-Alfort, on July 20, 2016 shows a tick, whose bite can transmit the Lyme disease. / AFP / BERTRAND GUAY/Getty Images) (Bertrand Guay/Getty Images)

A picture taken at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) in Maison-Alfort, on July 20, 2016 shows a tick, whose bite can transmit the Lyme disease. / AFP / BERTRAND GUAY/Getty Images) (Bertrand Guay/Getty Images)

Ticks spread more than Lyme disease

Jerome Goddard - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Victoria Arocho, File)

The tick that makes you allergic to meat

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
(Getty/kosmos111)

The CDC's science dodge

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Victoria Arocho, File)

Lyme wars upon us

Gabriela Serrato Marks
An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

"GMO" isn't a dirty word

Angelo Young
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Lindsay Abrams
(Roman Prokhorov/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Nathan Rupert)

Jason Bittel
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