With the temperatures rising and more outdoor activities commencing, there's a tick on the loose that can put an end to your meat eating if you get bitten by it. Health officials at the National ...

One step in the process of handling some samples prior to tick testing at the Pennsylvania Tick Research Lab. Credit: East Stroudsburg University Dr. Maria Diuk-Wasser, a professor and tick disease ...

This story and visualization are part of our new “Data In Your Life” series, in which we mine public databases to tell quick stories about the world around us. Lyme disease is one of the most ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - As spring and summer months are the primary tick season in Nebraska, the Department of Health and Human Services urges all residents to be mindful of ticks and protect ...

On a blisteringly hot, sunny day this summer, Emory University researcher Arabella Lewis made her way through the underbrush in a patch of woods in Putnam County, Georgia, about an hour southeast of ...

Pesky ticks are out and about and more active than ever. There have been 14 distinct species of ticks recorded in New York by Upstate Medical University’s tick map. The most common is the deer tick, ...

As tick populations grow (thanks, climate change) and tickborne diseases like Lyme become more widespread, tick checks have become routine for a lot of us. But do you really know what it means to ...

Alpha-gal syndrome is a serious and life-threatening allergic reaction that appears in mammals after a tick bite. The lone star tick can transmit alpha-gal syndrome to humans through its saliva. The ...