MINNEAPOLIS --An insect bite could keep you from your favorite dishes and hygiene items. Most of us are familiar with Lyme disease -- a tick-borne illness that can be debilitating. It's caused by a ...

Ixodes scapularis, also known as the blacklegged tick or deer tick -- is moving westward, and for the first time has been found to be established in North Dakota. According to the U.S. Centers for ...

SANTA CRUZ — Winter storms have brought high surf and blanketing rainfall across Santa Cruz County and the Central Coast in recent weeks. But local health officials now warn it has likely brought ...

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott's Ibis Biosciences today introduced a new molecular assay to detect a wide variety of vector-borne microorganisms, including those known to ...

Janine Hauck doesn't know which tick gave her anaplasmosis and Lyme disease. She just remembers the fatigue, weakness and ...

This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

Maryland has some of the highest cases of Lyme disease​ in the nation, yet funding for research is in jeopardy.

A new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison finds that ticks can harbor transmissible amounts of the protein particle that causes Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), implicating the ...

Thousands of cases of tickborne diseases are reported annually in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. One of the latest victims was Kevin Redding, the executive director for ...

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott's Ibis Biosciences today introduced a new molecular assay to detect a wide variety of vector-borne microorganisms, including those known to ...