Tiny insects are spreading a devastating disease. Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believe they’ve ...

Ticks used to be something many hunters worried about in spring turkey season and early bow season, then mostly... The post ...

Lyme disease, named after the Connecticut town where clusters of children developed a then-mysterious disease in the 1970s, has quietly become one of the Northern Hemisphere’s most stubborn ...

A federal investigation will examine if the U.S. military weaponized ticks with Lyme disease during the Cold War. The investigation was prompted by an amendment from U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., ...

Adult blacklegged ticks can be active throughout the winter whenever temperatures are above freezing and there is no snow cover. The rebound of forests and deer populations in Pennsylvania has created ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. convened a ...

Health Secretary RFK Jr. wants to put more effort into researching Lyme Disease. RFK Jr. said previous administrations have ignored Lyme Disease. "Typical symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, ...

Just because it’s cold doesn’t mean ticks are no longer a problem. The creature recently named pest of the year by the National Pest Management Association is still skittering around South Carolina, ...

U.S. president Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders a government watchdog to probe a conspiracy theory—promoted by the country’s secretary of health and human services ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this week that he’s taking on Lyme disease—and boy, did his woo-tinged tendencies emerge fast. On Monday afternoon, RFK Jr. and HHS hosted a roundtable ...