NIH reportedly lost 1,200 workers through firings, resignations, early retirements and similar reductions through Kennedy’s ...

Marshfield Clinic Research Institute is once again asking Wisconsin residents to send in ticks they find while working and ...

New research led by Yale School of Medicine (YSM) advances the goals of creating a diagnostic test and vaccines for ...

also called the deer tick or the bear tick. This type of tick carries Lyme disease, an illness that can cause a rash, ...

Lyme Disease: Lyme disease is an infection caused by a spiral shaped bacterium called a spirochete. This bacterium is carried in the gut of the deer tick Ixodes dammini. The tick becomes infected ...

Two additional tick species in the U.S. have been found capable of transmitting red meat allergy, or alpha-gal syndrome.

The prospect of Lyme disease is no joke. About 47% of the adult ticks that the St. Joseph County Department of Health has collected since 2017 have tested positive for the bacteria that leads to Lyme ...

Dr. Megan Linske, a vector ecologist with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, said she's seen changes in new ...

Ticks are most active between May and October in Pennsylvania, but it doesn’t mean that they’re not out there now. Already, ...

Experts said the more mild winters and prolonged warm periods in Connecticut have created more friendly conditions for tick survival, some carrying serious diseases.

Black-legged ticks: Also known as deer ticks, they are found throughout the eastern United States. This tick can spread a ...

This type of tick carries Lyme disease, an illness that can cause a rash, flu-like symptoms, and joint pain. The black-legged tick, also known as deer tick, is the parasite that transmits Lyme ...