There's a new medical issue on Martha's Vineyard, and it's impacting the way people eat. It's known as "alpha-gal syndrome," ...

The invasive longhorned tick species is posing new health risks as scientists warn that it could potentially lead to an ...

A mom says her infant daughter may be the patient that health officials said is under investigation for having a rare ...

Powerful Hurricane Erin has undergone a period of astonishingly rapid intensification — a phenomenon that has become far more ...

A Boston baby is hospitalized with seizures and brain damage after a tick bite on Martha's Vineyard may have led to Powassan ...

Climate change may be helping longhorned ticks spread Ehrlichiosis across the U.S. more effectively. The infection ...

Public health officials are investigating whether a newborn girl on Martha’s Vineyard contracted the serious but rare ...

The study, published Friday in the journal iScience, was conducted by researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment ...

Emergency room visits for tick bites are at their highest level since 2019, according to the CDC. “It seems that we are ...

Western Michigan U. scholar says paper is a thought experiment, not an endorsement of spreading illness; and he eats meat.

Ticks do have immune systems but they operate very differently from ours. Like humans, ticks have cellular signalling pathways that help detect and respond to infection. Known as Toll, IMD and ...

Researchers say New England's fast-warming climate correlates with Maine's marked uptick in cases of tick-borne diseases, ...