They look cute, familiar or downright boring, yet these creatures quietly help drive a national injury toll that sends ...

The risk for being bitten by a tick infected with bacteria that cause Lyme disease is as high in Ohio as it is for those ...

The proposal would eliminate the financial motivation insurers have to mine their members’ charts for additional diagnoses.

Ticks are important vectors of human and animal disease, and outdoor workers are at elevated risk of tickborne diseases (TBDs). This risk is particularly relevant for Indigenous herd workers managing ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KCTV) - An exotic, invasive tick species has now been documented in Kansas. On Thursday, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA) ...

Tick-borne encephalitis virus causes severe neurological disease following tick bites, with increasing incidence across Europe and Asia. While vaccines exist, no targeted therapies are currently ...

The CDC estimates that around 476,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease each year. This potentially serious disease is spread through the bite of an infected deer tick, ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, together with international colleagues, have identified a protein that is crucial for the TBE virus to infect human cells. The discovery, published in the journal ...

An Asian longhorned tick was confirmed in Maine for the first time, officials said, marking the species' most northeasterly U.S. detection. The finding—a single, not fully grown specimen submitted to ...

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