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

Contact a healthcare provider if the tick bite site shows signs of infection, such as pain, erythema (redness), swelling, or ...

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

The test generally produces positive results in the later stages of the disease but often turns up false negative results in the early stages of infection. Therefore, diagnosis in the early phase is ...

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

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 ...

Lyme disease is the country's most common vector-borne illness, which are diseases spread by blood-feeding arthropods like mosquitoes, fleas, or ticks. It can typically be resolved with a brief ...

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

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 ...

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 ...