Lynne McCormack moved to Chilmark last year and enjoys working at the public library in the small town on Martha’s Vineyard.

Emergency rooms across the country are seeing a sharp rise in tick bite cases, with July 2025 already hitting the highest ...

Ticks live in North Carolina year-round, and can transmit serious illnesses such as Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, Rocky ...

Newly-cleared technology is a game changer for the diagnosis of an often debilitating disease. MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS ...

Staff at one of Chicago's largest hospital systems say they are seeing increased tick-bite cases, but there is not enough ...

In the late 1990s, a Lyme disease vaccine called LYMErix rolled out to great fanfare only to be pulled from the market a few years later by the manufacturer.

Background Lyme disease, a bacterial infection with the tick-borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, can cause early and late manifestations. The category of probable Lyme disease was recently ...

In late April, the Pennsylvania Department of Health released a health alert notifying health care providers that tick ...

A University of Arizona researcher is part of an effort to identify the diseases carried by ticks, and she's asking people to send her samples.

A tick bite can look like a red, swollen area on your skin. There may also be a bull's eye around the bite. Sometimes, the ...

You just finished a satisfying summer hike or wrapped up a weekend of yard work when you spot a tick clinging to your clothes. The fresh-air high fades quickly as you remember the risks -- ticks are ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The risk of being bitten by a tick in New York City is currently extremely high, researchers at Fordham ...