As tick season nears, just one tick bite can set off a chain reaction of maladies that can all but ruin a person’s life, ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of deer ticks infected with Lyme disease may be as high as 50% in some areas. Strangely, blacklegged ticks in the ...

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

Lyme disease is the most well-known, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, and is transmitted by black-legged ticks, ...

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

Wyoming entomologists say ticks are beginning to come out and are warning about two new species that are particularly awful.

That was the same time the Washington Post ran the story “ NIH reels with fear, uncertainty about future of scientific ...

Lyme disease is a condition transmitted from the bite of a black-legged or deer tick. When a tick attaches to you, it can transfer a spirochete bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. The longer ...

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – Fort Meade will conduct a deer herd reduction between March 17 and March 20 as part of an ongoing ...

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

A female deer tick (xodes scapularis), one of ... these infections and eventually recovered as well. Invasive Ticks Carrying New Diseases Are Spreading Through the Northeast All ehrlichiosis ...