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 ...

THERE ARE FIVE MAJOR TICK SPECIES HERE IN MARYLAND. EACH OF THEM BRINGS A DIFFERENT RISK AND CARRIES A DIFFERENT ILLNESS. AND DOCTOR DOUGLAS NORRIS STUDIES THEM ALL INSIDE. DOCTOR DOUGLAS NORRIS LAB ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This summer is shaping up to be one of the worst tick seasons in recent years, according to new Centers for Disease Control and ...

HAPPENS AND AN EARLY LOOK AT THE WEEKEND FORECAST COMING UP. WELL, SUMMER IS NEARLY UPON US AND TICKS ARE OUT IN FORCE. NEW HAMPSHIRE OFFICIALS SAY DEFENSE IS KEY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ILLNESS, ...

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 ...

Blacklegged ticks can carry Lyme disease. As the summer begins, so does tick season, and with rising cases of tick-borne diseases in Michigan, health officials are encouraging people to take ...

Tick-borne illnesses are on the rise in Connecticut. As a result, University of Connecticut researchers are urging students to take precautions as cases spread across campus, per a recent article by ...

The black-legged deer ticks that spread Lyme disease are flourishing in New Jersey, as are other ticks, too. Such is the word from entomologists like Rutgers University's Dina Fonseca, who says ...