Officials with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station said they received 300 ticks submissions in August, a drop from record highs in the spring and early summer, but caution that this fall ...

Undergraduate student Amber Huot uses tick dragging, a field sampling method for collecting ticks from vegetation. Huot is a student intern with the VectorED Network, a CDC-funded Vector-borne Disease ...

This year, ER visits for tick bites have increased dramatically, corresponding with a new threat: a rise in Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), where one bite from a lone star tick can make you violently ...

For advice on tick-free hiking, we reached out to tick expert Lea Hamner, an epidemiologist with the Martha’s Vineyard Tick ...

Ongoing research into the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in whitetail deer has identified a tiny new piece of the puzzle: ticks. University scientists from Wisconsin and Minnesota discovered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A short video posted by Kip Adams, Chief Conservation Officer at the National Deer Association, has gone viral on social media, ...

There is an increasing need for signs such the one seen here at the entrance to a trail at Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor, New York, warning of ticks. (Photo by James Carbone/Newsday RM via Getty ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison finds that ticks can harbor transmissible amounts of the protein particle that causes chronic wasting disease (CWD), implicating the ...

Deer have long gotten a bad rap as drivers of Lyme disease — but a new study, using more than 35 years of data, shows they ...

This year's tick season has been a doozy — and another surge is coming in the fall. Why it matters: Tick bites can pose ...