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

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

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.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of deer ticks infected with Lyme disease may be as high as 50% in some areas. Strangely, blacklegged ticks in 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 ...

Lyme disease is the most well-known, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, and is transmitted by black-legged ticks, ...

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 ...