Alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy caused by a bite from the lone star tick, may also be triggered by the deer tick and ...

Two emerging tick species, including one that is known to cause a red meat allergy, are on the rise in Connecticut. Researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station recently released ...

Spring may have only just started showing signs of life in New England, but tick season has already begun. Thomas Mather, the director of URI’s Center for Vector-Borne Disease and its ...

Ticks are harmful to people and pets, and often carry diseases like Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), ehrlichiosis and ...

New cases of alpha-gal syndrome — a rare but potentially life-threatening illness that makes people violently allergic to red meat — suggest that more tick species may be to blame than ...

Ticks, once latched onto a fleshy target with their barbed, needle-like mouths, are ready for almost anything. They glue themselves to the skin using a complex, cement-like substance. And then ...

Mar. 22—Deer tick activity surged this week in Maine as warmer weather stirred the Lyme disease-carrying arachnids out of their dormant winter state to begin searching for hosts. Griffin Dill ...

There have been 14 distinct species of tick recorded in New York by Upstate Medical University’s tickMAP. Other recorded species include the Asian longhorn tick and Ixodes cookei. Research has ...

There have been 14 distinct species of tick recorded in New York by Upstate Medical University’s tickMAP. Other recorded species include the Asian longhorn tick and Ixodes cookei. Research has ...

A new invasive tick species was recently found in St. Louis County, with more sightings expected this spring and summer. April marks the start of tick season in the Midwest, and this year a new ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Of the thousands of ticks collected across Connecticut last year, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station says blacklegged ticks- also known as deer ticks- were ...

URI Professor Thomas Mather said that tick spotting have increased in the last two weeks. In New England, you should watch out for black legged ticks, which can cause Lyme's disease, and lone star ...