Could that rash be an insect bite? And what kind of bug bit you? The answers aren't so easy to figure out. Even for experts, it can be challenging to decipher insect bites. Using your skin's ...

When a mosquito pierces your skin, it does more than cause a fleeting moment of discomfort—it sets off a chain reaction ...

A woman who woke up with a bug bite was forced to have her fingers and toes amputated after her organs shut down. Cathrine Abbott-Coetzee believed she had a relatively harmless mosquito bite but ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

According to Colorado State University , the most common flea that bites people is the human flea, mainly found on wild ...

Whether camping or hanging out in your backyard, bug bites can ruin a good time. You need to protect your exposed skin from mosquitos and other biting insects. The CDC recommends that you use only ...

There’s nothing quite like making a little ‘X’ on a painfully sensitive mosquito bite to provide an inkling of relief. The very best way to relieve the pain of an insect bite, however ...

Except when those come in the form of insect bite marks or, even worse, a mosquito-borne disease. Having experienced the former on almost every holiday to date and the latter (alongside an ...