None of the discovered insects has yet been tested for diseases or pathogens. Researchers issue warning after discovering ...

The Asian longhorned tick has officially been found in Maine for the first time — and experts say its arrival could have ...

Insect and tick-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and Lyme disease, are serious health threats which cause human misery, hardship and more than one million deaths worldwide ...

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most common symptoms of Rocky Mountain spotted fever ...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, or MDHHS, is encouraging residents to take steps to avoid tick bites. As the weather warms, transmission of tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease ...

Lyme disease isn't the only illness you can pick up from a tick bite. Experts also warn people could suffer from a deadly virus named Powassan. Powassan is carried by the same tick that harbors Lyme ...

Inaugural Tick Awareness Week Designed to Inform in Response to Increase in Lyme Disease Cases Around the United States Since the late 1990s, reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States have ...

Texas ticks are most active between May and September, according to Sonja Swiger, a professor in Texas A&M University’s entomology program. Arthropod populations, including insects and arachnids such ...

All it took was an unusual February warm spell this past week for the tiny insects causing an increasingly big problem in Michigan to become active once again, beginning their hunt for blood. "A ...

It's the little things that can get you. The military has known this for years, providing troops with many uniforms treated with insect repellent designed to ward off ticks, chiggers, fleas, ants, ...

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to research recently addressed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), human cases of Lyme disease are more common in the U.S. than previously ...