Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) spreads through tick bites, similar to Lyme disease, and has the potential to cause serious ...

Lyme disease is spread through a tick bite. Lyme disease is not contagious or spread from one person to another through touch or saliva. The bacteria that cause Lyme disease can live in the blood.

Vector-borne diseases in Africa pose increasing threats due to factors like population expansion, livestock movement, and climate change. Ticks, as ...

Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) has now been confirmed in locally acquired human cases in the U.K., with evidence of ...

Greater monitoring of the risk of diseases spread by insects is needed in environments where animals and people coexist, say ...

Tick borne encephalitis is usually spread to people who have travelled abroad to other parts of Europe, as well as China and ...

Wyoming already had three well-known ticks that are harmful to humans in the state: The Rocky Mountain wood tick, ...

FOR the first time, a deadly brain swelling disease has been detected in British patients with no travel history – which ...

Japan’s health ministry on June 23 announced the world’s first infection and fatality from the tick-borne Oz virus. It said a woman in her 70s living in Ibaraki Prefecture just outside Tokyo ...

Alpha-gal syndrome, affects hundreds of thousands of Americans and is particularly prevalent in the southeastern United ...

When it's freezing cold and snowy outside, ticks might not spring to mind, but a team at Mount Allison University wants to ...