A potentially fatal infectious disease that ticks can pass to people through bites has been identified by health authorities in the United Kingdom for the first time, according to Public Health England (PHE), as the BBC reported. Health authorities in the UK said it confirmed cases of tick-borne encephalitis virus in ticks in two parts […]
By Joyce Sakamoto and Shelley Whitehead Cases of vector-borne disease have more than doubled in the U.S. since 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported, with mosquitoes and ticks bearing most of the blame. Mosquitoes, long spreaders of malaria and yellow fever, have more recently spread dengue, Zika and Chikungunya viruses, and […]
By Clara Chaisson In the summer of 2013, I was changing into pajamas when an irritated blotch of skin caught my eye. My rib cage looked like a miniature advertisement for Target: There was a near-perfect circle of red, a smaller, concentric ring of clear skin, and then a red dot right in the middle. […]
By Cassidy Randall, MADE SAFE A new report from Made Safe, Bug Repellent: What’s In It?, examines common active ingredients in conventional insect repellent and their impacts to human health and the environment, as well as more natural options. There have been studies regarding the efficacy of some repellent chemicals individually. But researchers have yet […]