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

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

The person is not contagious at this stage since the original infection has cleared the body. Lyme disease spreads through the bite of an infected black-legged or deer tick. It is not contagious ...

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 ...

Ticks are so small that it's easy to miss when they bite ... tick bites. There are many types of ticks in the U.S., and many of them can spread multiple pathogens that cause illness in humans.

A woman in her 60s from northern Minnesota has died from a brain infection due to Powassan (POW) virus. This is the first death in the state attributed to the disease. One other likely POW case ...

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

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 ...

A vaccine for Lyme disease could be available soon, according to reports. A promising jab for the disease was pulled from the market in 2002 due to low demand and claims of arthritis and other ...

However, you can get infected by a tick bite anywhere in the UK.” While it’s hard to measure exactly how common general tick bites are here in the UK, Helen Todd – campaigns and policy ...

Interestingly, there are very few reports of tick bites from the Singapore ... wildlife also raises the risk of an infection transmitting from animals to humans, otherwise known as zoonotic ...