Getting bitten by a deer tick can lead to Lyme disease. These ticks can carry bacteria responsible for the illness and ...

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

Visits to the Emergency Room for tick bites this summer are spiking well above those of previous years, Centers for Disease ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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