As the weather warms and more people venture for walks and a general consumption of the outdoors, the potential for dangerous tick bites increases. Dr. Syra Madad joined Cheddar News with some best practices for people who might be in situations where they encounter disease-carrying ticks. She also provides some expert insight into managing tick bites, common areas on the body they tend to target, and what the ramifications for those that have been potentially infected.
America’s honeybee hives just staggered through the second highest death rate on record, with beekeepers losing nearly half of their managed colonies, an annual bee survey found.
A line of severe storms produced what a meteorologist calls a rare combination of multiple tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and softball-sized hail in west Texas, killing at least four people, injuring nine and causing significant damage around the town of Matador, a meteorologist said Thursday.