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

About 10% of victims with severe cases will die, while about half of survivors have long-term neurological problems. No ...

Expect a usual amount of ticks and mosquitos this summer. In Wisconsin, that's a lot. Here are 5 strategies to keep them and ...

Temperatures remain spring-like and warm in South Dakota- but if you’re heading outside, then beware of ticks. The South ...

The emerging number of Powassan cases in Minnesota is one of the reasons the National Institutes of Health gave Matthew ...

"We see mostly deer ticks and dog ticks biting people," Rich says, "but rabbit ticks were collected in this one backyard in Maine." Lead author Guang Xu, research professor of microbiology on the ...

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

They can also carry the germs that cause babesiosis and human granulocytic anaplasmosis. Young deer ticks ... tipped tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin’s surface as possible.