Early melting of Minnesota’s already limited snow cover this winter coupled with recent warm temperatures have allowed blacklegged ticks, often called the “deer ticks,” to feed across the ...

Approximately one-third of blacklegged ticks (also called deer ticks) tested during recent years in Minnesota were positive for disease-causing organisms, say state health officials. Blacklegged ...

The tick-borne parasitic disease is endemic in New England, but it's been found from Virginia to Maine as well as the upper Midwest, from Michigan to Minnesota, as deer ticks expand their range.

A female deer tick (xodes scapularis), one of the two ... According to the report authors, the donor was a 33-year-old man from Minnesota who agreed to donate his kidney to an unrelated recipient.

The immunologist and professor of biomedical sciences is studying deer ticks and the bacteria that cause Lyme disease at the ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources invites people interested in wildlife and outdoor skills to check out the spring program schedule for the Minnesota Outdoor Skills and Stewardship webinar ...