When home do a tick check, search around your knees, underarms, behind your ears, and your crotch. Also, check your pets if they’ve been outside. You should throw your clothes in a dryer on high heat ...

Healthbeat reports tick populations are rising in the Northeast, raising tick-borne disease risks. Here’s how to stay safe.

Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their ...

“Ohio is on the front lines really of tick expansion and new ticks here in the eastern half of the United States,” McDermott ...

WORCESTER ― The number of ticks in Massachusetts is increasing, according to some experts, and that means the risk of catching a serious disease is rising. "Ticks are more active, and they're biting ...

Lyme disease is the most common disease carried by deer ticks, but others include the bacterial infections anaplasmosis and ...

As summer heats up, health experts are warning residents of D.C., Maryland, and Virginia about the growing threat of Babesiosis, a bloodborne disease transmitted by the black-legged tick, also known ...

There’s nothing fancy about tick hunting. When University of Pittsburgh professor Danielle Tufts and her team of public health students go out, they bring just a few things: A white jumpsuit, a pair ...

A lone star tick found crawling on a visitor in Nelsonville was removed and promptly burned with a lighter while recreating ...