Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) spreads through tick bites, similar to Lyme disease, and has the potential to cause serious ...

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

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

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

Experts have sent an urgent message to the British public about the presence of a virus that could hit the country soon.

Tick borne encephalitis is usually spread to people who have travelled abroad to other parts of Europe, as well as China and ...

Japan’s health ministry on June 23 announced the world’s first infection and fatality from the tick-borne Oz virus. It said a woman in her 70s living in Ibaraki Prefecture just outside Tokyo ...

A domestic British case of a potentially deadly virus spread by blood-sucking ticks, has been confirmed for the first time, experts say. Called tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) it mainly ...

But the numbers of blacklegged ticks, the main transmitters of the Lyme disease bacteria, are growing, she said. Vett Lloyd, a biology professor at Mount Allison University, says her lab's ...

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

When it's freezing cold and snowy outside, ticks might not spring to mind, but a team at Mount Allison University wants to ...