Changing deer populations, rising temperatures and other factors are driving ticks and their diseases into new areas.

The United States is on track to record its worst tick season in a decade, raising concerns about life-altering and ...

Ticks (Ixodes scapularis, I. pacificus and others) are not insects but instead are close relatives of mites and spiders. In fact, they may have evolved from mites more than 94 million years ago. 3 ...

A rare but dangerous tick-borne virus is on the rise across the U.S. The Powassan virus is spread mainly by the deer tick, the same one that carries Lyme disease. However, unlike with Lyme disease in ...

An East Tennessee cattle farm reported the loss of two heifers following a severe infestation of Asian longhorned ticks. The invasive tick species can reproduce without mating, allowing for rapid ...

A rare but dangerous tick-borne virus called Powassan is appearing more often across the United States, and experts say warmer weather may be helping it spread. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

Massachusetts recently joined more than a dozen other states in mandating doctors and blood labs to report cases of an unusual tick-borne syndrome known as alpha-gal. The very dangerous and sometimes ...