The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the following Thursday on Lyme Disease Awareness Month: Tickborne diseases are on the rise and prevention should be on everyone’s mind, particularly...

Cases of babesiosis, transmitted by tick bites, increase over the spring months with the majority of affected people falling ill in June or July. The seasonal rise in this parasitic disease in the United...

Everyone agrees that ticks are exceedingly nasty creatures. For hundreds of millions of years, they have survived on Earth by sucking blood from their victims for days, often leaving behind terrible diseases...

The number of cases of the tickborne bacterial infection, anaplasmosis, are up significantly in the state of Maine, according to data from the state’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Through Aug....

The tick-borne parasitic disease, Babesiosis, can be a serious disease, particularly in those with weakened immune systems or those without a spleen; however, researchers at the Yale School of Medicine...

With tenacity befitting their subject, an international team of nearly 100 researchers toiled for a decade and overcame tough technical challenges to decipher the genome of the blacklegged tick (Ixodes...

Ticks are arachnids, like spiders, scorpions and mites, from the Class Arachnida. While most tick bites do not transmit infectious disease, some very serious infections can be contracted from the bite...

Ticks are arachnids, like spiders, scorpions and mites, from the Class Arachnida. While most tick bites do not transmit infectious disease, some very serious infections can be contracted from the bite...

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Manitoba health officials reported Friday that the geographic reach of the black-legged tick in the province, increasing the risk for diseases like anaplasmosis, babesiosis and Lyme disease. The annual...

The Maine Centers for Disease Control has released the update 2014 numbers for three important tickborne diseases in the state: Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis. The case count for Lyme disease...