Lone star ticks and Asian longhorned ticks are rising in CT, raising concerns about alpha-gal syndrome and ehrlichiosis.

Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia are seeing unusually aggressive tick activity this year. As tick season rolls around, residents of tick-prone areas in the U.S. are readying to ...

Experts are predicting a severe tick season for North America in 2026, including propagation of the lone star species whose bites can trigger potentially lethal red meat allergies in humans. But there ...

Blacklegged tick populations in New England and New York aren’t exploding, but the number of ticks carrying disease-causing ...

Lab analyst Diana Wendelin gently adjusts a slide under a microscope. An enlarged image of a tick comes into focus on her computer screen. “So, the first thing I'm looking at is called the scutum.

Up-close tick encounters are nothing new to Peter Krause. As a tick-borne disease researcher, he’s conducted fieldwork where these parasites live. After one trip to Block Island, off the coast of ...

Health officials urge Michiganders to take precautions to prevent tick bites as the blood-sucking arachnids spread to more heavily populated areas of the state. The number of Lyme disease cases in ...

Alpha-gal syndrome, the tick-borne illness that causes people to develop a serious allergy to meat and dairy, is "an emerging public health concern in Massachusetts," the state epidemiologist says. Dr ...

If you couldn’t join us for our Tim McDermott’s talk on ticks last May, you missed a great session, but this article will ...

Blacklegged tick populations in New England and New York aren’t exploding, but the number of ticks carrying disease-causing pathogens has risen sharply over recent decades.