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Quick Take If you share your home with a dog or cat, you also share it with invisible commuters: parasites looking for a warm meal. Fleas and ticks do not need a dirty house to move in. All it takes ...

Flea bites cause red, itchy bumps on your skin. Hydrocortisone cream, cold packs, and antihistamines offer relief from flea bites. Fleas are most active in warm, humid months, and having pets ...

RAHWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside of the United States and Canada, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA (NYSE:MRK), today announced ...

Once found mainly in New England and pockets of the Midwest, disease-spreading ticks are now appearing in more places across the U.S. Emergency room visits for tick bites are at their highest levels ...

Here are the symptoms that a tick bite on a human has become infected or has caused illness in its victim.

Study shows many ticks carry several infections, increasing health risks and making diagnosis harder after bites.

SAN FRANCISCO — More people are going to the emergency room after being bitten by ticks this summer when compared to recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While ...