From saliva to hunting strategies, ticks use a range of tactics that affect how quickly they can spread disease.

Ticks and the diseases they carry are only becoming more common. But new treatments and vaccines might not be too far off.

Lyme disease is not rare; in fact, it is the most common vector-borne illness in the United States. Despite being widespread, ...

As a result, deer populations grew rapidly. With the deer came deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis) carrying borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.When a tick feeds on an infected ...

A London woman is warning pet owners in the Long Point area to be vigilant after a rare tick-borne disease killed her dog. A ...

The black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis) and western black-legged tick ... Thorough body checks after outdoor activities enable early tick removal before disease transmission occurs.

The present study investigated whether ticks harbor and excrete CWD prions and contribute to their indirect transmission. Pathogen-free Ixodes scapularis (black-legged tick) female and male adults ...

Lyme disease is caused by the bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi.This corkscrew-shaped bacteria is spread through the bite of an infected black-legged tick, or deer tick, lxodes scapularis, in the ...

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) conducted the study. Timeline of symptom onset in a patient with alpha-gal syndrome after Ixodes scapularis tick bite, Maine, USA, 2022.

Stock image of a deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) on human skin. A parasitic disease called babesiosis spread by the ticks has become endemic in three U.S. states, with cases on the rise.

It’s in those days of quiet blood-thirst that ticks pass along bacteria that causes conditions like Lyme disease, a growing problem driven in the U.S. by black-legged ticks (or Ixodes scapularis).

With the deer came deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis) carrying borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. When a tick feeds on an infected animal, it can take up the bacteria. The ...