These East Coast ticks are known to carry many devastating illnesses, including Lyme disease, hard tick relapsing fever, and anaplasmosis. If that wasn’t bad enough, perhaps the most unfortunate ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick- also called a deer tick - is a risk during spring, summer, and fall. A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, ...

Cases are most frequently found in the southeastern and south-central United States, from the East Coast to Texas. Alpha-gal ...

A relatively recent (labeled as an emerging threat) red blood cell parasite was recently diagnosed in calves in Kansas.

Reuben's treating paediatrician, Rahul Joshi, said ticks were attracted to wet, humid climates along the east coast. "When it attaches to the skin it releases a numbing agent so the kids don't ...