Insect and tick-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and Lyme disease, are serious health threats which cause human misery, hardship and more than one million deaths worldwide ...
Despite strong efforts by public health officials to warn our citizens about the risks, tick-borne disease cases are rising ...
LANSING – It’s officially tick season across Michigan. As warmer weather approaches, so does the increased risk of encounters with the tiny parasites. And while there are more than 20 known species in ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an alarming report yesterday, declaring that cases of diseases spread by ticks, mosquitos, and fleas more than tripled in the US between 2004 ...
When Janet Jarnefeld started working as a tick specialist at the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District 28 years ago, deer ticks were all but absent in the southwest metro. “Years ago, it would be ...
Last summer, in a town just outside New York City, a tick bit a man. This ought to sound unexceptional. Ticks are normal on the upper East Coast; after all, tick-transmitted Lyme disease was first ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One spreads Lyme disease. The bite of another may cause a lifelong meat allergy. And yet another is new in town, having traveled north from warmer climates toting Rocky Mountain ...
As the weather warms up and winter fades away, you may already be planning an early-spring hiking trip, or possibly starting to get your yard and garden ready for the growing season. But in many ...
Escher Cattle learned early on about his passion for insects and comics. Now he brings both to his new role as Barnstable ...
When Janet Jarnefeld started working as a tick specialist at the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District 28 years ago, deer ticks were all but absent in the southwest metro. “Years ago, it would be ...