These parasites thrive in warm, moist areas of the body.While most tick bites are harmless, some ticks carry diseases that can be transmitted to humans through their bites, leading to various symptoms ...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a bacterial infection spread by biting ticks to humans and dogs. Found on every continent ...

A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease – the ...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a bacterial infection spread by biting ticks to humans and dogs. Found on every continent ...

Oh Good, a New Way That Ticks Can Make Us Sick Ticks are prolific carriers of many germs, including the germs behind Lyme disease, relapsing fever, and ehrlichiosis. Several species of bacteria ...

Scientists at Montana State University’s Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology are working to develop a better vaccination for Lyme disease.

Joe Cardiello, PhD, had moved his entire young family to the Fort Collins, Colorado area in September to take a new job in ...

There’s an epidemic of tick-transmitted Lyme disease, with some estimates putting the number of people diagnosed and treated in the U.S. at 476,000 people a year, according to the Centers for ...

Cities in states like Massachusetts, Florida and Colorado are expected to see surges in pests like rats and mosquitoes, ...

Deviations from normal weather patterns are putting several regions in the U.S. at risk for an uptick of disease-spreading pests, a pest-management group says.

The sesame-seed-sized arachnid is considered a "serious threat," according to the Missouri Department of Agriculture. The ...