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 ...

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

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

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

What are the things that signify a Manitoba spring? The sight and sounds of geese, the lawn taking on the faintest shade of ...

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

Ticks can spread Lyme disease and give people red meat allergies ... Carried by blacklegged ticks (more commonly known as ...

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.

With the arrival of spring and summer, the Midwest is bracing for an increase in tick activity – particularly deer ticks, ...

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 ...

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