Study shows many ticks carry several infections, increasing health risks and making diagnosis harder after bites.

More ticks in the U.S. Northeast now carry multiple diseases, raising risks as Lyme and babesiosis co-infections climb.

A new study from the Cary Institute found 10% of ticks sampled carried multiple pathogens, including those that cause Lyme and babesiosis.

Tick-borne diseases are on the rise in the northeastern US, with many ticks carrying more than one pathogen, reports a recent analysis published in Ecosphere by researchers at Cary Institute of ...

The tick that transmits Lyme disease to people goes through three stages in its life. And the tick involved is the deer tick, not the larger dog tick which is more easily seen because it's larger and ...

Doctors say 90% of all diseases transmitted by an insect bite originate with ticks, even when a mosquito does the biting. As ...

One step in the process of handling some samples prior to tick testing at the Pennsylvania Tick Research Lab. Credit: East Stroudsburg University Dr. Maria Diuk-Wasser, a professor and tick disease ...