Master the techniques for surviving a tick infestation.

On Sept. 16, a pup, later named Microsoft Office, arrived at Austin Pets Alive's animal hospital covered in thousands of ...

Lyme disease is caused by the Borrelia bacteria, which is passed on to humans via infected blacklegged tick bites. Ticks are most active from April to October, making it crucial to recognise the signs ...

Ticks are more than just a nuisance—some of them carry serious diseases like Lyme and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. You certainly want to avoid ticks, but don’t panic if you happen to find one on your ...

Scientists with the University of Illinois analyzed where three species of ticks are most likely to be found in the state, ...

Warmer weather and forest changes are fueling longer tick seasons and spreading Lyme disease to new parts of the United States.

Is red meat making you sick hours after eating? You could have alpha-gal syndrome, a food allergy caused by tick bites that’s ...

As of early September, 298 cases of Lyme disease had been reported in Ontario County, most of them in Victor and Canandaigua. Canandaigua City Councilmember Doug Merrill is calling the high instances ...

According to Texas A&M University, which has a long-running community science program to study the insects, kissing bugs are blood-suckers that feed on people or animals, particularly at night. In ...

The disease ehrlichiosis, a serious and potentially fatal bacterial disease that can cause severe illness in dogs, is transmitted by the Brown Dog Tick. With the parasite being particularly widespread ...

As Lyme disease spikes in Michigan, public health workers across the state are conducting what is called tick "surveillance" to see where different tick species are and which diseases they may be ...

A deadly tick disease is spreading across the Northern Territory and is killing half of impacted pooches in some areas. The disease ehrlichiosis, a serious and potentially fatal bacterial disease that ...