Public health agencies are urging people to take precautions when spending time outdoors, such as using insect repellent and ...

Climate change may be helping longhorned ticks spread Ehrlichiosis across the U.S. more effectively. The infection hospitalizes around 60% of patients and can be fatal.

A Boston baby is hospitalized with seizures and brain damage after a tick bite on Martha's Vineyard may have led to Powassan ...

A mom says her infant daughter may be the patient that health officials said is under investigation for having a rare ...

Ticks do have immune systems but they operate very differently from ours. Like humans, ticks have cellular signalling pathways that help detect and respond to infection. Known as Toll, IMD and ...

Studies have linked ticks on six continents to alpha-gal syndrome and its unusual symptoms. An entomologist explains what ...

Found a tick? Don't panic. Here's how to remove a tick bite Here's the proper way to remove a tick: Using a pair of tweezers or tick removal tool, grab the tick close to your skin.

Public health officials are investigating whether a newborn girl on Martha’s Vineyard contracted the serious but rare ...

The study, published Friday in the journal iScience, was conducted by researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment ...

You know Lyme disease. But across areas of the Northeast, incidents of "anaplasmosis" – a different vector-borne illness – ...

Islanders’ diets are being upended by an onslaught of alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-induced allergy to meat and dairy.