Maine (WABI) - The new Tick Report from the UMaine Extension Tick Lab shows ticks and related diseases continuing to solidify ...

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

With spring underway, the likelihood of getting a tick-borne illness is elevated, according to Mayo Clinic. One that ...

Have you been recreating in the outdoors recently? I don’t mean in the backyard or on the patio, but out in the fields, ...

Penn State Health Children’s Hospital are seeing seasonal allergies this week. They’re also seeing rashes from outdoor ...

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 ...

“Flea bites often result in small, red bumps, with a ‘halo’ around the bite center,” says Jim Fredericks, Ph.D., a ...

Folk methods for removing ticks are usually bunk for one of a few reasons. Either they aim to induce the tick to detach with ...

Ticks can spread Lyme disease and give people red meat allergies, and now there’s increasing worry in Minnesota about another ...

Ticks are most active between May and October in Pennsylvania, but it doesn’t mean that they’re not out there now. Already, more than 1,500 cases of Lyme disease — which is spread through the bites of ...

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 ...

Torr added that people should aerate areas like sheds before doing spring cleaning and they should do wet cleaning instead of ...