Ticks are parasitic arachnids that feed on the blood of mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. They vary in size and ...

There’s an epidemic of tick-transmitted Lyme disease, with possibly 476,000 people a year diagnosed and treated in the U.S.

Animals also drive up tick numbers. Ground-foraging birds, as well as deer and rodents are all major hosts. As they are not usually painful, you won’t realise you’ve been bitten straight away.

FOR the first time, a deadly brain swelling disease has been detected in British patients with no travel history – which ...

Does the rise in diseases like Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever mean tick populations are on the rise? Are there ...

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is spread by infected blacklegged ticks, these ticks are the most common ticks here on the west coast. According to the CDC, Lyme disease spreads when ...

Biology professor Vett Lloyd says the traditional way of dealing with tick bites has been to "wait and ... assuming that people may have been infected and giving them a preventive dose of ...

Some infected people will be asymptomatic ... Therefore, diagnosis in the early phase is frequently based on symptoms and the likelihood of a deer tick bite. Early detection means early treatment when ...

With summer comes insect bites. Most insect stings result in small, local reactions, and these can be treated by ...

Alpha-gal syndrome, affects hundreds of thousands of Americans and is particularly prevalent in the southeastern United ...

Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) has now been confirmed in locally acquired human cases in the U.K., with evidence of ...

When an infected tick bites someone, it transmits Rickettsia rickettsii bacteria. The bacteria attack the lining of the blood vessels, says Johanna Salzer, a veterinary medical officer and top ...