Turns out, some insects have the same idea. The Venn diagram between human outdoor activity and nymphal (baby) tick activity ...

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

The discovery was made in a residential backyard in Maine where researchers were collecting rabbit ticks and testing them for ...

UMass Amherst researchers have discovered a new bacteria in Maine rabbit ticks linked to an infection that can be deadly for ...

Even though baby ticks are about the size of poppyseeds at ... The health department has a grant with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to do tick drags in the county.

The Indiana Department of Health says recent death in Floyd County is being blamed on ehrlichiosis, a tick-borne illness.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new tick surveillance website that maps county-level ...

Researchers have been trying for decades to understand just how the tiny tick is able to evade the human body’s defenses and pass along pathogens. A new study by Fikrig and other researchers ...

said:"While we have observed an increase in the bacteria that can cause Lyme disease in ticks, we do not have data on the resulting impact on human health, including evidence of Lyme infection.

A cold and snowy winter failed to keep ticks from biting plenty of humans in New York and across the Northeast this March, according to emergency departments tracking illnesses caused by the tiny ...