Wyoming entomologists say ticks are beginning to come out and are warning about two new species that are particularly awful.

With warmer weather arriving, more people are spending time outdoors, and ticks are becoming a concern again. While ticks can ...

To curb the spread of Lyme disease in the northeastern United States, scientists and public health experts for decades have ...

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

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

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a bacterial infection spread by biting ticks to humans and dogs. Found on every continent ...

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.

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 ...

MOLINE, Ill. — American Dog reopened Monday, Feb. 24, exactly one month after a fire damaged several businesses in a Moline strip mall. The devastating fire broke out at the Get Pro Tech shop in ...

Common tick-borne diseases include Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Lyme disease is the most well-known, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, and is ...

There’s an epidemic of tick-transmitted Lyme disease, with some estimates putting the number of people diagnosed and treated in the U.S. at 476,000 people a year, according to the Centers for ...