The Powassan virus is spread mainly by the deer tick, the same one that carries Lyme disease.

Up-close tick encounters are nothing new to Peter Krause. As a tick-borne disease researcher, he’s conducted fieldwork where these parasites live. After one trip to Block Island, off the coast of ...

Tick activity increases in early spring through summer. However, recent lab data indicate people across Texas have brought in more ticks for testing this season than in years past for illnesses such ...

Health officials and researchers hope that efforts to control deer populations, which serve as "party buses" for mating ticks ...

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in the United States. There is no vaccine to protect against it in humans. Biopharmaceutical company Pfizer and Valneva, a European ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country. Some U.S. doctors are worried about the potential for a bad ...

Lyme disease has been spreading across the United States, with more cases covering more territory in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It has been spreading ...

Carroll College professor of biology Grant Hokit drags a white cloth through brush outside of Condon, Mont., looking for ticks. Hokit surveys for ticks statewide for the Montana health department.