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

Lee said he and his colleagues also test the ticks he finds for pathogens. Deer ticks are the most common ticks in Wisconsin that sicken people, and about 20 to 40% of adult deer ticks carry ...

So far in 2025, the website has recorded 117 different encounters, with roughly 65% of them involving deer ticks. The best way to avoid tick-borne illnesses is to prevent tick bites. There are ...

Carried by blacklegged ticks (more commonly known as deer ticks) the Powassan virus can cause neurological damage and, in rare cases, death. Last year, there were 14 reported cases in Minnesota ...

"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 ...

Lyme disease, or Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted by the bite of a black-legged tick, the kind carried around by deer on Staten Island, and it is a growing area of concern for residents and ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered rabbit ticks in Maine that carry a new strain of bacteria that can cause life-threatening spotted fever infections in humans ...

Dr. Joan Thode offered the following advice about ticks and Lyme disease: “Lyme disease is caused by a spiral-shaped organism that gets transmitted by deer ticks who have fed on animals ...

Maine (WABI) - The new Tick Report from the UMaine Extension Tick Lab shows ticks and related diseases continuing to solidify and expand their presence within Maine. In 2024, the lab analyzed over ...