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

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 ...

Lyme disease gets a lot of attention, but as there's been an uptick in deer tick numbers over the years, another illness has ...

Warmer temperatures increase tick activity, raising the risk of tick-borne illnesses, University of Maine Tick Lab warns.

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.

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

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

While the knowledge of ticks being vectors for Lyme disease is ubiquitous, there’s a lesser-known threat these insects carry that's concerning health experts: the Powassan virus. As the tick season ...

“These ticks were removed from a dog, and they’re full blood engorged,” said Rolston. Deer ticks are much smaller than the ..

Have you been recreating in the outdoors recently? I don’t mean in the backyard or on the patio, but out in the fields, ...

Tick season is here again, and that means you need to be extra vigilant with checking your pets for the blood suckers.