Ticks can be hard to spot but spread serious diseases. See pictures of what tick bites and rashes look like and get tips from ...

Hidden in leaf litter near wildlife corridors, a poorly known threat to public health lies in wait for hikers, cyclists and ...

Lyme disease is an infectious illness caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, typically transmitted to humans through ...

Using a suctioning tool and forceps, the team "delicately dislodged" the dead tick from the woman's ear. They also prescribed ...

Scientists are developing the first-ever pill to prevent Lyme disease, potentially protecting millions from tick-borne ...

(Pien Huang | NPR) With urging from his wife, Hinton headed to the reservation’s tribal hospital, where he was diagnosed with ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during spring, summer, ...

A new study finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks and 25% of the younger ticks in the Northeast US carry the bacteria ...

We’ve all suffered through one of the longest stretches of miserable, bone-chilling subzero temperatures in years in the ...

The Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory diagnosed Theileria orientalis Ikeda, a red blood cell parasite in cattle ...

He explained that the sickness had come to be called January disease because it is most prevalent during the month of January ...