Study shows many ticks carry several infections, increasing health risks and making diagnosis harder after bites.

An expansive study of ticks in New York and the diseases they carry determined that the prevalence of a lesser-known blood parasite is rising. Scientists were expecting to find plenty of Lyme disease ...

A new study from the Cary Institute found 10% of ticks sampled carried multiple pathogens, including those that cause Lyme ...

More ticks in the U.S. Northeast now carry multiple diseases, raising risks as Lyme and babesiosis co-infections climb.

Tick-borne diseases are on the rise in the northeastern US, with many ticks carrying more than one pathogen, reports a recent analysis published in Ecosphere by researchers at Cary Institute of ...

More Than A Third Of Blacklegged Ticks Carry Disease, And One Parasite Is Spreading In A Nutshell A nine-year New York study found more than one in three blacklegged ticks infected with at least one ...

You are enjoying a warm summer evening outdoors, and you feel the familiar, itchy pinch of a mosquito bite. You swat the bug away, but a terrifying thought crosses your mind: “What if that mosquito ...

With tick season approaching soon, Bassett Healthcare Network specialists are warning people to be aware of a few key ...

Michael Sizemore thought he was having a normal weekend. He was outside building a chicken coop for his wife and three kids ...

The mosquito of greatest concern is widespread in Australia and closely associated with suburban areas. Commonly known as the Australian backyard mosquito, Aedes notoscriptus is a nuisance-biting pest ...

As Spring and Summer approach, many of us will be spending much more time in the beauty of the outdoors. However, in all of that beauty lie harrowing things such as tick bites. The majority of the ...

Alpha-Gal syndrome is a tick-borne allergy to a sugar found in red meat. For some livestock producers, it not only affects their health but also their livelihood.