A UMass Amherst center has found and studied two ticks in Maine that can possibly infect people with rare, possibly fatal, ...

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

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Epidemiologist Elizabeth Schiffman, who supervises the Vectorborne Diseases Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, ...

Higher temperatures mean we are approaching the peak season for ticks and the diseases they carry. Pets cannot only track ticks into our homes, but they are also not immune to tick-borne illnesses ...

In fact, adult black-legged ticks stand up to winter weather just fine, and deer tick season never really ends, said Jody L.

Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

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 ...

The emerging number of Powassan cases in Minnesota is one of the reasons the National Institutes of Health gave Matthew ...

While adorable to look at, the fairytale gets old fast when deer show up in the garden. But there are plants you can grow ...

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

Tick-borne illnesses remain a serious threat in Maine, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the University of ...