With spring weather comes spring bugs, like fleas and ticks. Get them out of your way with one of these top tick removal kits.

If you are concerned about tick-borne illness, you should preserve the tick in a small plastic bag after removal and take it ... wash your hands — and the bite site — with soap and water ...

Two Emerging Infectious Diseases studies link bites from black-legged (deer) and western black-legged ticks to potentially ...

Huynh provided the procedures that are necessary for safely treating a tick bite. “To minimize the retention of tick parts onto the skin during removal, you should use fine-tip tweezers to grasp the ...

Spring may be the season for warming weather and blooming flowers, but that’s not all that emerges this time of year. Unfortunately, it’s also when ticks are extremely active, particularly in ...