State health officials say the first tick to test positive for Ehrlichia muris eauclairensis (EME), a bacteria transmitted by ...

Rates of babesiosis, a potentially fatal tick-borne disease sometimes referred to as “American malaria,” increased an average ...

According to the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, probable and confirmed cases of Lyme disease in the ...

While Lyme disease is most prevalent in the northeastern United States, as deer ticks have spread, so has the disease. In ...

Seeing a medical professional is especially urgent if you show symptoms of severe babesiosis. These include yellowish skin or ...

It sounds like the plot of a second-rate horror movie: fleet-footed ticks that hatch “bombs” of hundreds of hungry biting ...

The goal of the research is to help scientist learn about ticks and their diseases. This time of year, people will likely find more deer ticks. “We often see a second peak of deer ticks in the ...

Stock image of a deer tick (main) and a tick warning sign (inset ... by microscopic parasites of the genus Babesia, which infect red blood cells. The main parasite responsible for babesiosis ...

Deer ticks are quickly spreading across the U.S ... Lyme disease can be identified by a red, circular rash that appears at the site of a tick bite three to 30 days after being bitten.

The forest floor is now littered with apples and acorns. Outdoors Columnist Oak Duke shares what that means for deer hunting ...

It makes the victim allergic to the consumption of red meat. There is no cure ... It's called "questing behavior." Almost any ...