Two Emerging Infectious Diseases studies link bites from black-legged (deer) and western black-legged ticks to potentially ...

the dog tick (American or brown), or the lone star tick. Ticks are known carriers of disease-causing pathogens, but knowing ...

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.

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

Rescue DOG has seen a large uptake in numbers of Lyme positive dogs this year. One out of five dogs tested are coming back ...

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 ...

Grassy or wooded areas for the American dog tick (“wood tick”), which carries Rocky Mountain spotted fever. If you can’t avoid tick habitat, use repellent to reduce the risk of disease ...

Lyme disease spreads through the bite of an infected tick, and can lead to life-altering complications if untreated Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...

and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis). Deer ticks, however, are much smaller and the disease they spread more common. Rocky Mountain Lab was founded around 1900 specifically to study ...