There are a few safe ways to dispose of a tick. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations include drowning ...

Tick bites are are on the rise this and they can carry some nasty illnesses. Which are most common depends where you live.

While western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus) tend to swarm in large forest preserves, the Lyme-causing bacterium is actually more prevalent in small, isolated patches of greenery.In these ...

When you think about ticks, you might picture nightmarish little parasites, stalking you on weekend hikes or afternoons in the park. Your fear is well-founded. Tick-borne diseases are the most ...

Q: We live in Wisconsin, and this year we're seeing a lot of news about ticks carrying Lyme disease and a few other kinds I hadn't heard of before. They don't fly around like mosquitoes, so why ...

I was quickly diagnosed with a wheat allergy, so for 11 years, every time I would get sick, I thought I had been contaminated by wheat.” Debbie Nichols does not remember the tick that transmitted her ...

While western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus) tend to swarm in large forest preserves, the Lyme-causing bacterium is actually more prevalent in small, isolated patches of greenery.In these ...

By Sean Lawrence West Virginia University When you think about ticks, you might picture nightmarish little parasites, ...

In 1892, at a meeting of cattle ranchers at the Stock Raiser’s Convention in Austin, Texas, Dr. B.A. Rogers introduced a novel theory that ticks were behind recent devastating plagues of Texas ...