Ellen Stromdahl was at a garden party in coastal Virginia in June 2023 when her friend Albert Duncan stood up from where he was sitting and abruptly fainted. Duncan is an outdoorsman in his mid-80s — ...

A bite from the Lone Star tick could cause an allergy to red meat, and now the bug is moving north. Typically found in the southeast region of the United States, the tick is moving north, according to ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Springtime swarms of bloodthirsty black flies and mosquitoes are common in the cool, moist woods of the Adirondacks. But the disease-carrying ticks that plague southern New York ...

The first locally acquired case of an emerging tick-borne disease has been reported in Connecticut. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station said this is the first locally acquired human case ...

Good morning, and welcome to your Daily Briefing! This is business editor Nicole Young. I hate ticks. I cannot say it enough. It all started when I was 5, and we moved from Mobile, Ala. to Dickson, ...

A close-up shot of a tick moving across someone's pants - Rbkomar/Getty Images While we often think of ticks as creatures lurking in the wild, their eggs can make themselves at home in the most ...

BOONE, N.C. — When Appalachian State biology professor Steve Seagle drags for ticks near the Boone Greenway Trail, he has a pretty good sense of what he’ll find. “It’s almost certainly going to be a ...

FAIRGROUNDS TO ATTEND THE DOUGLAS COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT RECEIVES A GRANT TO SURVEY DIFFERENT TICKS AND TWO PARKS IN THE METRO. OKAY. NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S WAVERLE MONROE CAUGHT UP WITH THE EXPERTS.

North Carolina is experiencing a surge in Lyme disease cases. Researchers from UNC Greensboro, North Carolina State, and Appalachian State University conducted a five-year, statewide survey of ...

Observation of Live Ticks (Haemaphysalis flava) by Scanning Electron Microscopy under High Vacuum Pressure, PLoS One “Scanning electron microscopes (SEM), which image sample surfaces by scanning with ...