Blood-sucking ticks are gross and can carry a variety of diseases. But how do you protect yourself against ticks? And why do ...

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

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

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UMass Amherst researchers have discovered a new bacteria in Maine rabbit ticks linked to an infection that can be deadly for ...

A growing threat to the state’s $58 billion winegrape industry may end up being sniffed out by trained detector dogs.

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

Epidemiologist Elizabeth Schiffman, who supervises the Vectorborne Diseases Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes the lone star tick as “very aggressive,” and it seeks out human ...

The Food Standards Agency in the United Kingdom has issued a frightening warning about certain dog treats made in China. The ...

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