A flesh-eating ulcer that can lead to permanent disfigurement and has no known prevention appears to be spreading along ...

Two cases of the flesh-eating Buruli ulcer have been confirmed in Batemans Bay, with infectious diseases experts labelling ...

One item on the opossum’s menu is another newcomer — ticks. A warming climate has brought the insects, and Lyme disease, to our forests and grasslands. According to the Public Health Agency of ...

The researchers extrapolated from this that a wild opossum could potentially eat around 5,500 ticks per week during tick season. And thus, a legend was born. Issues with the Opossum-Tick Study ...

Would-be wildlife warriors are being warned not to handle unwell possums, after cases of a flesh-eating ulcer emerged in ...

Opossums are meticulous groomers, consuming up to 90% of the ticks that cling to them, unlike other animals that carry ...

Wyoming doesn’t have a known wild opossum population, but that could change as two neighboring states have them -- Nebraska ...