As tick populations grow (thanks, climate change) and tickborne diseases like Lyme become more widespread, tick checks have become routine for a lot of us. But do you really know what it means to ...

Inside Douglas Norris' lab at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sits a healthy stack of envelopes — not with letters inside, but with ticks. "They are creepy for most people, but ...

The American dog tick is the primary carrier of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, which can be fatal. Lone Star ticks can cause alpha-gal syndrome, a serious allergy to red meat. Black-legged ticks, also ...

It’s time again to remember to check for ticks while raking leaves. Ticks breed in the moist leaf piles overnight, and the mothers lay 2,000 eggs. Also, if you have an oak tree in your yard, it’s ...

Pennsylvania ranks among the top 10 states for the number of Lyme disease cases, and state officials are appropriately directing our attention to measures we can take to prevent or treat the ...

GRENADA, Miss. -- A Mississippi mom is urgently warning parents to be on the lookout for ticks after tick paralysis left her young daughter unable to walk. In a widely shared Facebook post, Jessica ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Across East Tennessee, the weather is starting to warm and the days are looking bright. People are venturing outside to soak in the sun before returning home. All the while, they ...