A new study by Fikrig and other researchers, published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, uses a powerful ...

The infection is almost exclusively passed to humans through the bite of a parasite, which is crucial to remove quickly ...

Getting a tick bite doesn't automatically spell medical emergency, but it is important to know what to do next.

In Estonia, many people learned a lesson from ethnomedicine as children: that placing a plantain leaf on a scraped knee would ...

The primary tick species to be wary of in New England is the black-legged tick, also called the deer tick or the bear tick.

Researchers confirmed that black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) can trigger alpha-gal syndrome in humans. A 10-year ...

To curb the spread of Lyme disease in the northeastern United States, scientists and public health experts for decades have targeted white-footed mice as the prime hosts for the immature ticks that ...

Dr. Megan Linske, a vector ecologist with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, said she's seen changes in new ...