Along with the great outdoors—whether that’s the backwoods, your back yard, your local park, or your favorite running trail—comes insects. And certain insects like ticks can come with trouble. “Ticks ...

It’s May, which means warmer weather, a little more time outside, spring gardening...and ticks. Each Thursday this month, Taylor Quimby, host of the NHPR podcast Patient Zero, is bringing us ...

Every spring in Michigan, as ticks wake up from their winter dormancy around the same time many humans seem to wake up from theirs, public health experts remind people to brush up on the basics of ...

David Gaines is an expert when it comes to ticks. When he's not investigating insects throughout the state, he's spending time at his farm. Since moving to Virginia in 1988, Gaines has been bitten by ...

Although Labor Day has passed and summer is winding down, bug season is still going strong in much of the U.S. If you’ve spent time outdoors in Pennsylvania in recent weeks, you know bug bites are ...

Two-thirds of Ohio counties, including Cuyahoga County, have found this type of tick, which transmits Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis and Powassan virus disease. There have been 104 reported ...

Ticks, Lyme disease and the other nasty ailments we can pick up through the bite of tick have been with us for years. Health agencies and organizations and many related companies have spent millions ...

Recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, studies estimate about 476,000 Americans may be diagnosed with Lyme disease each year. But there’s another fast-growing tick-borne condition ...

After a 9-year-old Connecticut boy heard buzzing in his ear, his doctor found a dog tick attached to his eardrum, according to a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The boy ...

If the thought of creepy crawlies sends shivers down your spine, fair warning: Tick season is upon us. According to a report by Ohio’s Country Journal, experts are seeing a shift in the number and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The warm weather has returned — which means ticks are more active, New York State officials are warning. The New York State Department of Health, New York State Department of ...

FORT SILL, OK – Summer is here, and in addition to the heat and stormy weather, mosquitos and ticks are flourishing this year. The Reynolds Army Health Clinic (RAHC) Environmental Health department ...