Ticks are spreading globally and bringing familiar conditions such as Lyme disease with them, as well as totally new ones.

Other early symptoms of Lyme disease mimic what you might experience with the flu: a fever, chills, muscle aches, and swollen lymph nodes. Within the first five to 10 days of Lyme disease infection, ...

Changes to forests, and how close people and their livestock live to them, have changed tick habitats and the risks humans face of Lyme disease and other illnesses.

While Lyme disease gets the most attention – and affects the most people – there are other tick-borne bacteria and diseases that have also been found spreading in the U.S.

New Jersey has long been plagued by Lyme disease, thanks to a plentiful population of ticks that emerge this time of year. They transmit the bacteria that causes the disease through a bite that ...