For the record, ant bites aren’t as common as you might think. “All ants can bite but they rarely do unless harassed,” says Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann, Ph.D., associate director of community & urban ...

Medically reviewed by Susan Bard, MD You can use anti-itch creams and antihistamines to help treat bug bites and stings at home. Identifying the type of bite or sting is important for choosing the ...

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Japan is set to deploy beagles to sniff out venomous fire ants at ports around the country. Beagles have been chosen for the ...

GALVESTON -- A jury Wednesday awarded $136,000 to the daughter of a woman whose 82-year-old mother was bitten hundreds of times by fire ants in her bed at Galveston's Gulf Health Care Center. The ...

We won't ever let him forget her side by side. Players. On Mountain View. High School's baseball team stood with each other Sunday to honor the mother of one of their own. After *** tragedy, Kay Weed ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AUSTIN (KXAN) – Pictures of Kathleen Laurel ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has disciplined nine employees, including a regional director and a chief medical officer, after a Vietnam War veteran was reportedly found covered in ants and ant ...

A peptide found in bull ant venom closely resembles a hormone of its primary predator, triggering hypersensitivity and making subsequent bites even more painful than the ones that came before. When ...