The primary tick species to be wary of in New England is the black-legged tick, also called the deer tick or the bear tick.

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

BILLINGS — A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme ...

New research from the CDC is exposing surprising new culprits behind a growing meat allergy. The tick menace is even worse ...

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 ...

Of the thousands of ticks collected across Connecticut last year, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station says ...

The group of blood-sucking parasites called ticks can spread pathogens like Lyme Disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis.

PORTLAND (WGME) -- Tick experts are warning Mainers to prepare for an increase in tick populations this spring, following a winter that was not consistently cold enough to reduce their numbers.

Ticks that can spread diseases that afflict people, including Lyme disease, continue to proliferate in Connecticut, the latest findings from a multiyear tick surveillance program show. On Monday, the ...

The primary tick species to be wary of in New England is the black-legged tick, also called the deer tick or the bear tick.