Sometimes you’re sitting there reading a book when you suddenly feel the top of your head smarting. Or you have had a nagging pain on the back of your neck for a couple of days while you were sitting ...

Ticks tend to be smaller than a pencil eraser, but they can cause big health problems. A bite from a tick can lead to Lyme disease, or the lesser-known Powassan virus. Check for ticks after spending ...

SEATTLE — As the weather warms up, we naturally like to spend more time outdoors. That alone increases the risk of tick bites. These bugs can carry dangerous illnesses like Lyme disease. Tick-borne ...

Spring may have only just started showing signs of life in New England, but tick season has already begun. Thomas Mather, the director of URI’s Center for Vector-Borne Disease and its TickEncounter ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Many days this past winter had temperatures above average in the Ozarks. We certainly saw that pan out, with Springfield’s seventh-warmest December on record and last month ...

As autumn brings color-changing trees and falling leaves, a dangerous little critter could crash your leaf-peeping adventures. Ticks are a common parasite that are so small, we often miss them.

Sometimes people call me “the tick guy,” but I’m a mammal guy by training. Although I respect ticks, I don’t fear them, especially after developing an immunity that kills them when they try to bite me ...

Finding one tick on your body is scary enough—tick-borne diseases are serious—but what if you found more than 10 on yourself ...