It's important to remove a tick as soon as you notice it's there. Here's how to do it properly and prevent tick-borne illness.

If you find a tick buried in your skin after a long day outdoors, the natural reaction might be to panic and rip it out. Lyme disease, alpha gal, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and other tick-borne ...

You can usually remove a tick head safely using tweezers or a needle. Other popular remedies, like using a credit card, may do more harm than good. Share on Pinterest Gutaper/Getty Images Ticks are ...

Like any outdoor insect, ticks can be a real pest. But they’re more than just a nuisance – ticks can carry dangerous diseases like Lyme disease, Heartland virus, tickborne relapsing fever, tick ...

Ticks don’t merely insert their horrifying mouthparts into you; they dig their way in via flesh-ripping hooks and then anchor themselves with a proboscis that’s studded with barbs—the little jerks.

Ticks that attach themselves to your body typically create no immediate pain, but they can cause an array of illnesses, especially if they're not extracted in time. Maladies associated with tick bites ...

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Tick removal should be done carefully so as not to crush the bug, which may be full of infected blood. Here’s how to remove a tick that’s attached to your skin, according to the CDC guidelines: Use ...