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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The state legislature passed a bill to end Pennsylvania's Sunday hunting ban with bipartisan support, and Gov. Josh Shapiro ...

Babesiosis is a malaria-like disease that is more commonly found in the Northeast and upper Midwest of the United States.