For Lyme Disease Awareness Month this May, Fox News Digital spoke to health experts about ways to lower the risk of contracting a tick-borne illness such as Lyme disease, especially in areas known ...

Lyme disease is the number-one cause of tick-transmitted disease in the United States." However, the tick has to carry the bacteria to give you Lyme disease. Not all ticks carry the bacteria.

If you haven't made checking yourself and your pets for ticks part of your normal routine, now is probably the time. In 2010, there were 37 cases of Lyme disease in Ohio. By 2023, there were 1,298 ...

And while reported cases stem largely from the Northeast and upper Midwest, a 2016 study in the Journal of Medical Entomology found ticks that carry Lyme disease present in nearly half of all U.S ...

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne infection in the U.S., mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. An estimated 476,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year, according to the ...

Lyme disease causes a telltale circular rash at the site of a tick’s bite, and can also cause a fever, chills, fatigue, and muscle aches.

Lyme disease is spread primarily by bacteria known as Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to humans, household pets, and forest critters (including mice and deer) by the blacklegged tick ...

Officials said ticks would be more active than usual early in spring 2023, which means Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections could spread earlier and in greater numbers than in a typical year.

Hard ticks can transmit an array of bacteria, viruses and parasites to human beings, causing a roster of diseases, both familiar-sounding and obscure: Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever ...

Tick season is usually from from April to October, though it varies by region. Across the U.S., there are almost 100 varieties of ticks, but only a few bite humans.

Scientists traced the cause to tick bites and named it Lyme disease, but why it had suddenly appeared there was a mystery. Similar symptoms had been documented on Long Island, New York, years before.

Ticks such as these from Maine are now more common than ever, causing a surge in cases of Lyme Disease, which remains hard to treat and almost impossible to cure. Getty Images ...