American dog ticks are found in grassy or wooded areas in all parts of Minnesota and in many other states. The risk of tick-borne diseases in Minnesota is greatest from late spring through mid ...

A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease – the ...

Lyme disease: Transmitted by the bite of an infected ... It’s spread by several species of ticks, including the American dog tick, the brown dog tick and the Rocky Mountain wood tick.

That was the same time the Washington Post ran the story “ NIH reels with fear, uncertainty about future of scientific ...

Ticks cover the ears and back of this dog in Mexico, where the disease has become an urban epidemic in some areas.

While most use winter as a chance for hibernation, around eight dozen people swarmed to the Brown County Music Center for the “Understanding Tick-borne Illness” conference Feb. 19 hosted by the Brown ...

Lyme disease cases in the U.P. have increased in recent years ... is most often transmitted by the American dog tick in the Eastern, Central and Western United States; by the Rocky Mountain wood tick ...

the lone star tick and the American dog tick. Read more on ticks and what makes them so harmful below. Ticks and diseases: What makes them so harmful? Ticks carry pathogens that can cause diseases ...

Scientists at Montana State University’s Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology are working to develop a better vaccination for Lyme disease.

Ticks are external parasites that live on the outside of their host. They survive by first biting and then feeding on blood.

Bites from blacklegged ticks (also called deer ticks) led to a record number of tick-borne disease cases in Minnesota during 2007, say state health officials. Blacklegged ticks carry Lyme disease ...