Parents of five-week-old Lily Sisco say their daughter is a “fighter” as they struggle with the potential long-lasting ...

A baby from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts is fighting for her life after contracting a suspected case of the tick-borne ...

Updated Aug. 5 About two weeks ago, West Tisbury resident Tiffany Sisco and her newborn daughter, Lily, were medflighted to ...

Powassan virus (POWV), a type of flavivirus closely related to the Zika and Dengue viruses, is an emerging tick-borne virus ...

A mom says her infant daughter may be the patient that health officials said is under investigation for having a rare ...

Rare Powassan virus case in Maine highlights serious tick-borne illness with no vaccine or treatment, causing neurological ...

A Boston baby is hospitalized with seizures and brain damage after a tick bite on Martha's Vineyard may have led to Powassan ...

Public health officials are investigating whether a newborn girl on Martha’s Vineyard contracted the serious but rare ...

A Maynard girl’s life was drastically changed after contracting Powassan virus from a tick bite in 2019. Her family urges ...

A Massachusetts mother has identified her newborn daughter, who has a possible case of Powassan virus, which is under ...

CBS News Powassan virus has been detected in ticks along a 40 mile stretch of Massachusetts' Cape Cod peninsula, said Dapsis.

Powassan virus was first identified in 1958 and was first recognized in deer ticks, the type that bite humans and also carry Lyme disease, in the mid-1990s. About 75 cases have been reported to ...