As awareness of tickborne diseases increases, it's important to know which ticks can cause these diseases, where you can find ...

Ticks are small, and you might not notice when they bite, but the diseases they carry can dramatically harm your health. Each ...

Reportings of lone star ticks are on the rise in the region. The tick can cause alpha-gal syndrome, an allergy to red meat.

URI Professor Thomas Mather said that tick spotting have increased in the last two weeks. In New England, you should watch out for black legged ticks, which can cause Lyme's disease, and lone star ...

Ohio has seen an increase in tick populations and wider distribution in the state in recent years. Blacklegged ticks, the primary carriers of Lyme disease, are active year-round in Ohio, and five tick ...

While we often think of ticks as creatures lurking in the wild, their eggs can make themselves at home in the most unsuspecting places. Inside your house, these tiny clusters can hide under carpets ...

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a surprise finding: rabbit ticks harboring a new type of bacteria related to a ...

The Connecticut Department of Public Health wants Connecticut residents to mail their ticks in for identification and testing ...

If you like to venture outdoors in Rhode Island, you're probably already on the lookout for ticks. But these days, not only do you have to worry about black-legged ticks that can carry Lyme disease, ...