Story by Eric Pilgrim | Fort Knox | 11.18.2025
Commentary about being bitten by a tick that gave the author alpha-gal syndrome, and the difficulties of living with the potentially deadly allergy....
Story by Eric Pilgrim | Fort Knox | 06.11.2025
Mosquitos! Chiggers! and Ticks, oh my! As we get into the summer months, it’s more and more likely Fort Knox residents will have an encounter with one or all of these pests. One man who knows a thing or about them is Fort Knox Public Health chief Dr. James Stephens, and he is itching to share his knowledge with others. He said 2025 is the year of the tick....
Story by Eric Pilgrim | Fort Knox | 06.09.2021
One woman tells her story of illness from a tick bite as health officials at Fort Knox encourage employees, families and Soldiers to take preventative steps to avoid getting bit by ticks, and what steps to take if they do get bit....
Courtesy Story | Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command | 08.12.2020
Tick season in most areas of the U.S. begins in April and lasts throughout the warmer months, with bite cases trailing off around September, though activity is reported year-round. With the range of many tick species expanding by over 300% since the late 1990’s and Lyme disease cases almost doubling from 17,000 in the year 2000 to an estimated 30,000 cases in the United States today,......
Story by Douglas Holl | Defense Centers for Public Health-Aberdeen | 05.26.2020
For more than 20 years the Army Public Health Center Tick-Borne Disease Laboratory has been offering military clinics and health care providers test kits for free identification and analysis of ticks that have been removed from human patients. This service was known as the DOD Human Tick Test Kit Program, or HTTKP, which is not the catchiest acronym. The program is expanding so that individual......
Story by Ilka Cole | 96th Test Wing | 01.13.2016
The 96th Medical Group’s laboratory provided the first-ever human-blood sample of a spirochete bacteria, borrelia turicatae, known to cause tick-borne relapsing fever to be cultured at the Centers for Disease Control....
Courtesy Story | Keller Army Community Hospital | 06.18.2015
Rates of tick bites and Lyme disease are high in the Northeast. New York State ranks third in confirmed cases of Lyme disease, only behind Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Lt. Col. Gordon Prairie, Keller Army Community Hospital's Chief of the Primary Care Dept., wants to remind people of the dangers of tick bites and how to prevent them from happening....
