So, for instance, you’re likely to encounter them at the “edge of a wooded area where the grasses are a little high,” she adds. But chiggers — also called berry bugs — are more common in some parts of ...
CUTTACK: An elderly man has reportedly died due to scrub typhus and two more infected with the mite-borne disease in Cuttack district. Prabhakar Das (70), succumbed to the disease at Mahima Ashram ...
I’ve used phrase books to wheedle antibiotics, in Thai, Portuguese and Spanish, out of pharmacists on three continents. Itching and alone in rural Chiapas, Mexico, I once called my physician dad while ...
You’re not likely to see these little biters but you’ll feel them later. Chiggers are not considered insects, but are actually members of the arachnid family, which includes ticks and spiders. They ...
Chiggers do not burrow under your skin, and they do not suck your blood. They do pierce your skin with their mouth and produce an enzyme in their saliva that dissolves nearby skin cells.