Philip Stewart, an RML scientist, hopes to return to the Richey area to search for deer ticks to see if the species has ...

Wyoming entomologists say ticks are beginning to come out and are warning about two new species that are particularly awful.

PORTLAND (WGME) -- Tick experts are warning Mainers to prepare for an increase in tick populations this spring, following a winter that was not consistently cold enough to reduce their numbers.

The immunologist and professor of biomedical sciences is studying deer ticks and the bacteria that cause Lyme disease at the ...

A female deer tick (xodes scapularis), one of the two tick ... including the germs behind Lyme disease, relapsing fever, and ehrlichiosis. Several species of bacteria cause ehrlichiosis, though ...

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – Fort Meade will conduct a deer herd reduction between March 17 and March 20 as part of an ongoing ...

That was the same time the Washington Post ran the story “ NIH reels with fear, uncertainty about future of scientific ...

Eric Siegel, a Ph.D. student in microbiologist Stephen Rich’s Laboratory of Medical Zoology and at the UMass Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-borne Diseases (NEWVEC), has been ...

Dear EarthTalk: "Does the rise in diseases like Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever mean tick populations are on ...

Scientists at Montana State University’s Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology are working to develop a better vaccination for Lyme disease.

While most use winter as a chance for hibernation, around eight dozen people swarmed to the Brown County Music Center for the “Understanding Tick-borne Illness” conference Feb. 19 hosted by the Brown ...