With the arrival of spring and summer, the Midwest is bracing for an increase in tick activity – particularly deer ticks, ...

I was fully covered in these hives, head to toe. Literally from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet,” said Rob Attaway, who has alpha-gal syndrome.

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new tick surveillance website that maps county-level ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Ticks can spread Lyme disease and give people red meat allergies, and now there’s increasing worry in Minnesota about another ...

Warren County residents and visitors can help track ticks this year through an online resource from Warren County Health Services. The website compiles local tick encounters and displays them on a ...

With temperatures rising, more residents will begin to spend more time outside.While spring is a good time to enjoy the comfortable weather, it also marks the b ...

Deer ticks are tiny — about the size of a pencil lead. Spring heralds the return of migrating birds, peeping frogs in the wetlands and spawning fish moving to the shallows. It marks the ...

Lyme disease is probably the most widely known disease that can result from a bite from the black-legged tick (a.k.a. deer tick, Ixodes scapularis). According to Purdue Medical Entomology, the ...

With the warm weather comes deer ticks. They carry not only Lyme ... you could possibly become infected only 15 minutes after a tick bites you," said Jarnefeld. Unlike other tick-borne diseases ...

Blacklegged ticks, or deer ticks, are often found around Nova Scotia, hiding in long grass and attaching to a host without notice. Bites from these insects can result in Lyme and other diseases in ...