May is Lyme disease awareness month and, at the same time, a certain variety of tick has become more abundant in the Kootenay ...

Among the various tick species found in New England, the deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) is particularly notorious for carrying the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi).

Tick bites are most common between May and September, and there have already been more than 20 reports in 2025 in Western ...

This bacterium is carried in the gut of the deer tick Ixodes dammini. The tick becomes infected after ... Tick Paralysis: A number of species of ticks can transmit tick paralysis. It is not an ...

Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to examine the reasons behind rising rates of tick bites and the expanding regions ...

Experts are warning of increased tick-borne illnesses this year due to a surge in acorns boosting mouse populations, expanding tick habitats.

Ticks carry a variety of diseases that can be debilitating if left untreated. There are multiple species of ticks in Ohio, each carrying their own diseases. Spring has officially sprung in central ...

Experts at the state Environmental Science and Forestry Lab say a lot of factors are pointing towards what could be a very ...

There has been an increase in the number of ticks in Ohio and the number of tick species over the past few decades, according to Tim McDermott, an assistant professor at Ohio State University's ...

Fred Kraus, a researcher in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan, was studying snakes in Papua New Guinea when one of his research assistants took the bite ...