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

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

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

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.

When it's freezing cold and snowy outside, ticks might not spring to mind, but a team at Mount Allison University wants to get people thinking about the time they were bitten by one.Research is ...

Experts have warned that the virus TBE, transmitted by ticks, has begun to spread locally in the UK – the virus can cause ...

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

Current public health campaigns encourage everyone to be tick aware with the aim to try and prevent Lyme disease transmission. These campaigns should also now include TBEV,' they said.

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

But the numbers of blacklegged ticks, the main transmitters of the Lyme disease bacteria ... the greater the risk of transmission of the bacteria that causes Lyme. According to a map on ...

In 2023, an elderly woman in Japan died after getting bitten by a tick carrying the Oz virus, which causes lethal infections in the mice. She is likely the first death caused by the virus. Japan also ...