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

The discovery was made in a residential backyard in Maine where researchers were collecting rabbit ticks and testing them for ...

According to the Companion Animal Parasite Council’s 2025 forecast, the deer tick is expanding its U.S. range southward and ...

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

The new Tick Report from the UMaine Extension Tick Lab shows ticks and related diseases continuing to solidify and expand ...

Lyme disease is the fastest-grown vector-borne illness in the United States, with over 476,000 new cases annually, according to the Global Lyme Alliance, a national not-for-profit organization whose ...

That's bad news for people who like to spend time in woods, forests and other habitats of ticks and mosquitos, both of which can pass along disease to humans ... pathogens. Deer ticks are the ...

About 10% of victims with severe cases will die, while about half of survivors have long-term neurological problems. No ...

These ticks don’t carry Lyme disease, but they may transmit Colorado tick fever or Rocky Mountain spotted fever to human hosts. They prey on deer, badgers, coyotes, and other mammals. Rocky Mountain ...