A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while up to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...

A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...

A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...

A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...

Lyme disease can result in more serious symptoms if left untreated. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: This disease is carried by a bacterium and can be transmitted by the bites of dog or wood ticks.

Native blacklegged ticks are questing again; in fact, they began their search for fresh hosts in the islands nearly a month ...

In most of the country, the disease is spread by ticks in the Demacentor genus, which people tend to pick up while working or recreating in the woods, Traeger says. Here in the dry desert, among the ...

With urging from his wife, Hinton headed to the reservation's tribal hospital, where he was diagnosed with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever — the deadliest tick ... disease, for people or dogs.