Tick experts are warning Mainers to prepare for an increase in tick populations this spring, following a winter that was not ...

Doctors diagnosed 12 patients with the virus, three of whom acquired it locally. Experts issue urgent warning about dangerous ...

A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease – the ...

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is a severe tick-vectored food allergy caused by sensitivity to the galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose ...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a bacterial infection spread by biting ticks to humans and dogs. Found on every continent ...

A surge in disease-spreading pests like ticks, mosquitoes, cockroaches and rodents is expected in regions that experienced ...

The immunologist and professor of biomedical sciences is studying deer ticks and the bacteria that cause Lyme disease at the ...

Scientists at Montana State University’s Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology are working to develop a better vaccination for Lyme disease.

Ticks are external parasites that live on the outside of their host. They survive by first biting and then feeding on blood.

Dear EarthTalk: "Does the rise in diseases like Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever mean tick populations are on ...