The type of tick that typically carries disease in New England is the deer tick, which can be as small as a poppy seed.

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

In late April, the Pennsylvania Department of Health released a health alert notifying health care providers that tick ...

Every year, nearly 31 million people in the U.S. are bitten by a tick. Tick-related illnesses like Lyme disease are on the ...

As tick season is well underway in Fort Leonard Wood, medical professionals at the General Leonard Wood Army Community ...

When home do a tick check, search around your knees, underarms, behind your ears, and your crotch. Also, check your pets if ...

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 ...

Visits to the Emergency Room for tick bites this summer are spiking well above those of previous years, Centers for Disease ...