Study shows many ticks carry several infections, increasing health risks and making diagnosis harder after bites.

More ticks in the U.S. Northeast now carry multiple diseases, raising risks as Lyme and babesiosis co-infections climb.

Ohio is not the only state that has seen an increase in blacklegged ticks and Lyme disease. For instance, the director of the Tick Research Lab of Pennsylvania shared that the facility had seen a ...

Tick-borne diseases are spreading into new parts of the United States at a pace that has caught public health officials off guard. Babesiosis, a potentially fatal parasitic infection once confined to ...

Initial symptoms of Powassan include fever, headache, vomiting, and weakness, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, the virus often leads to a more severe disease that can cause ...

Tick-borne diseases are on the rise in the northeastern US, with many ticks carrying more than one pathogen, reports a recent analysis published in Ecosphere by researchers at Cary Institute of ...

More Than A Third Of Blacklegged Ticks Carry Disease, And One Parasite Is Spreading In A Nutshell A nine-year New York study found more than one in three blacklegged ticks infected with at least one ...

Acting fast after a tick bite can lower your risk of developing Lyme disease. You just finished a satisfying summer hike or wrapped up a weekend of yard work when you spot a tick clinging to your ...

A nationwide analysis of 470 adults who blamed tick bites for months of illness has found no evidence of persistent tick-borne infection driving their symptoms. The result challenges a widely held ...

CONCORD — New Hampshire public health officials are urging caution as they announce mosquito- and tick-transmitted infections. The state's first human case of Jamestown Canyon virus in 2023 is in an ...

A team from the Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute has identified a tick-derived evasin that can bind to two ...