Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No one wants to worry about summer illnesses, but there are certain diseases that spread in the warm weather because of tick bites ...

Ticks and the diseases they carry are a growing problem nationwide. As tick season ends, a closer look at what researchers are learning about how ticks survive and spread disease.

When someone was bitten by a tick at her cousin’s wedding in Arkansas, public health researcher Ellie Fausett knew there was a problem. Not just the tick, which Fausett readily identified as an ...

Up-close tick encounters are nothing new to Peter Krause. As a tick-borne disease researcher, he’s conducted fieldwork where these parasites live. After one trip to Block Island, off the coast of ...

The nonnative species from Europe, Latin America and Eastern Africa reached the United States by latching on to travelers, a study by researchers in the state shows, offering clues about how ticks ...

A mosquito and a tick in a photo composition. Mosquito- and tick-borne illnesses like West Nile virus and Lyme disease are already a concern in the summer months, but scientists say human impacts on ...

Ticks are small, and you might not notice when they bite, but the diseases they carry can dramatically harm your health. Each year, deer ticks alone cause an estimated 476,000 new U.S. cases of Lyme ...

No one wants to worry about summer illnesses, but there are certain diseases that spread in the warm weather because of tick bites. “Ticks themselves are not particularly dangerous to humans, it’s ...