Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CPRKids/Instagram The official state bird of Georgia should be the mosquito. You cannot go outside between the months of May ...

It can be distressing to wake up with a mysterious swollen red rash on your ankle. Could that rash be an insect bite? And what kind of bug bit you? The answers aren't so easy to figure out. Even for ...

Bed bug bites can prove highly irritable. While they usually clear up on their own in a week or so, if a bed bug infestation remains, it’s likely you’ll continue to get bitten. Bed bug bites can be ...

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals. “From an infectious standpoint, we have been seeing more ...

As the weather warms up, few of us can resist a nice evening walk through the park or a trip to the countryside to immerse ourselves in natural surroundings. It’s common to notice a sudden itch or ...

With the arrival of summer comes more time spent outdoors — which also means a greater risk of itchy skin conditions. Bug bites and stings are naturally more prevalent in the warmer weather, which ...

The tick was identified as Ixodes daminii (deer tick), but no parasites where found in its mouth. Lyme disease (LD), the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, is a systemic infection ...