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

Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that can cause Lyme disease in areas where pheasants are released, new research ...

With the warm weather comes deer ticks. They carry not only Lyme disease but also Powassan virus. "Most of the day is spent in front of a microscope identifying mosquitoes and ticks and black ...

The number of ticks that carry Lyme disease has climbed in recent years. A recent study by Dartmouth researchers and several other universities found that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks in ...

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

Oct. 23, 2024 — Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in Europe. Up to 70,000 new cases are estimated each year in Austria alone. The bacterial infection can cause ...