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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is on the rise, especially in urban Mexico and Brazil. A UC Davis paper highlights one of the most effective but often missing solutions to surviving this preventable, ...