According to the Companion Animal Parasite Council’s 2025 forecast, the deer tick is expanding its U.S. range southward and ...

A UMass Amherst center has found and studied two ticks in Maine that can possibly infect people with rare, possibly fatal, ...

The discovery was made in a residential backyard in Maine where researchers were collecting rabbit ticks and testing them for ...

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers stumbled upon a surprise finding: rabbit ticks harboring a new ...

Researchers have discovered ticks in Maine carrying a new strain of bacteria that can cause a life-threatening infection in ...

A Minnesota Department of Health epidemiologist shows samples of blacklegged, or deer, ticks that are known to carry Lyme and other diseases. While the knowledge of ticks being vectors for Lyme ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst say they've discovered a new bacteria in rabbit ticks in Maine that's ...

The primary tick species to be wary of in New England is the black-legged tick, also called the deer tick or the bear ... director of URI’s Center for Vector-Borne Disease, suggests following ...

"We see mostly deer ticks and dog ticks biting people ... SFR cases are rare in New England, but they do occur—even though the usual vector, dog ticks, have not been found to carry Rickettsia ...

Lyme disease is the fastest-grown vector-borne illness in the United States, with over 476,000 new cases annually, according to the Global Lyme Alliance, a national not-for-profit organization whose ...

The American dog tick is also the primary vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever ... Perhaps more common locally, the blacklegged or deer tick generally seeks out deer, but also feeds on mice ...