Ticks and the diseases they carry are only becoming more common. But new treatments and vaccines might not be too far off.

The type of tick that typically carries disease in New England is the deer tick, which can be as small as a poppy seed.

Any farm deer that dies past a year of age must be tested post-mortem for CWD, Newton said, with the disease popping up periodically in captive herds. Most of Pennsylvania’s commercially sold deer ...

Emergency room visits for tick bites are spiking across the U.S. this summer, with CDC data showing a sharp increase compared ...

WORCESTER ― The number of ticks in Massachusetts is increasing, according to some experts, and that means the risk of ...

You likely know about Lyme Disease, Alpha Gal and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, but health officials are sounding the alarm ...

Lyme disease is the most common disease carried by deer ticks, but others include the bacterial infections anaplasmosis and ...

This summer's May and June spikes in tick bites are the largest for at least five years in the Northeast, according to data ...

See how many tick bite-related emergency department visits the Northeast has seen this summer compared to last summer.

State wildlife officials are upping local harvest quotas for whitetail deer to combat a recent outbreak of chronic wasting ...

The most recent case — a red deer from a deer farm in Wayne County — was confirmed by a USDA lab this spring after it was ...

Emergency departments are seeing a notable increase in patients with tick bites, and the state epidemiologist said a tick ...