Climate change and increased outdoor activities are contributing to a rise in tick bites and related ER visits, as ticks thrive in warmer conditions and increased human-nature interactions. Ticks can ...

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in the United States. There is no vaccine to protect against it in humans. Biopharmaceutical company Pfizer and Valne ...

It is officially tick season in Massachusetts. Emergency room visits for tick bites reached their highest point for this time of year in nearly a decade, with bites making up 168 of 100,000 ER visits ...

Many tick bites are harmless, but some ticks can transmit pathogens causing diseases such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain ...

It can be jarring to get a tick bite, especially when the pest is still attached. But there is a right and wrong way to ...

By the time April arrived this year, emergency rooms across most of the country were already seeing tick-bite patients at ...

The first human case of a new tick-borne disease in Connecticut has been confirmed. According to the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, the first locally acquired human case of Rickettsia ...

America has a tick problem. While the overall number of ticks may not be increasing annually, the species of ticks that call particular regions of the nation home have changed. Previously, only one or ...