BILLINGS — A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease — the most common disease spread by ticks in the United States, estimated ...

In the fall of 2023, a tick was found on a bird dog after a hunting trip near Richey in Dawson County, eastern Montana. While ...

Numerous types of ticks exist, including the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) and black-legged tick (Ixodes ...

The type of tick most commonly known to carry the bacterium that causes Lyme disease has been identified in eastern Montana, according to new National Institutes of Health (NIH) research. […] ...

Lyme disease is most frequently reported from the upper midwestern, northeastern, and mid-Atlantic states where it is spread by Ixodes scapularis ticks. Some cases are also reported from northern ...

Eric Siegel, a Ph.D. student in microbiologist Stephen Rich’s Laboratory of Medical Zoology and at the UMass Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-borne Diseases (NEWVEC), has been ...

Lyme disease is a bacterial disease resulting from Borrelia burgdorferi that spreads through the bite of an infected deer tick or Ixodes scapularis. Common signs are fever, headache, tiredness ...

On Feb. 28, the lab issued a news release stating scientists had confirmed the tick was Ixodes scapularis, also known as the deer tick or blacklegged tick (not to be confused with the western ...