The type of tick that typically carries disease in New England is the deer tick, which can be as small as a poppy seed.

We’re right in the peak of tick season, but if you’ve been feeling like this year has been worse than usual, you’re not wrong ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first of its kind, once-yearly shot designed to protect dogs from fleas and ...

In late April, the Pennsylvania Department of Health released a health alert notifying health care providers that tick ...

A University of Arizona researcher is part of an effort to identify the diseases carried by ticks, and she's asking people to send her samples.

Ticks are surging in the DMV, spreading Babesiosis, a dangerous disease. Experts urge caution, early removal, and prevention ...

The black-legged tick, or deer tick, Ixodes scapularis, can transmit Lyme disease and other health hazards. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

A rare tick-borne virus has killed one and hospitalized two others in Wisconsin so far this year, The News Tribune reports.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The risk of being bitten by a tick in New York City is currently extremely high, researchers at Fordham ...