A woman has died after she accidentally stepped on a hill of fire ants near her home, her family has said. Cathy Weed, who lived in Lawrenceville, Georgia, suffered a severe allergic reaction after ...

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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — The parents of a 2-year-old girl who died after being bitten by ants is suing a medical center in Gwinnett County. Bethelhem Getu Hundie and Getahun Birhanu took their daughter, ...

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 ...

Florida is teeming with alligators, snakes, jellyfish, sharks and countless other things that could kill you. But there are smaller threats to avoid as well. A spider, mosquito or ant bite or a bee ...

July 2, 2006 — -- Last week, Janet Wallace Roedl Shiansky, a 68-year-old South Carolina woman, went into anaphylactic shock and died after being attacked by ants while she was gardening. The ants ...

Tawny crazy ants are an invasive species in Florida, forming supercolonies and displacing native wildlife. They are attracted to electrical equipment and can make yards uninhabitable. These ants bite, ...

Almost everyone in the South knows what a fire ant bite feels like. The aggressive insects swarm over anyone unlucky enough to get close to a nest, then bite and sting. The feeling burns, and people ...