The flesh-eating parasite, which attacks livestock, wildlife, pets and humans, has been steadily moving north for months.

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 ...

A fourth property in the tick-free zone has been placed in lockdown after cattle ticks were detected on their animals, with ...

A HIGH court judge has dismissed a dog owner’s urgent application to reclaim his pet, who was found trapped in a drain, starving and infested with fleas and ticks, while he was on holiday in Durban.

Despite strong efforts by public health officials to warn our citizens about the risks, tick-borne disease cases are rising ...

The United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announces a shift in New World screwworm sterile fly dispersal efforts into Texas to stop the northern spread ...

New world screwworm is a parasitic fly. Unlike most flies that lay eggs on dead tissue, this one lays its eggs in open wounds ...

Invasive Asian longhorned tick spreads deadly cattle disease across 25 states, causing major livestock losses and pregnancy ...

ABSTRACT: GAVAC (Heber Biotec S.A, Havana, Cuba) is a commercially available vaccine developed with the Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus Bm86 recombinant antigen. Bm86 is a “concealed” antigen that ...

A Michigan Tech student researcher, empathetic to the suffering of tick-infested moose — and with a personal ick for ticks — is working to bring the animals relief. Grace Moeggenborg, an applied ...