"It's skyrocketing across the island," explained Patrick Roden-Reynolds, a biologist and tick researcher on Martha's Vineyard ...

The invasive longhorned tick species is posing new health risks as scientists warn that it could potentially lead to an ...

A mom says her infant daughter may be the patient that health officials said is under investigation for having a rare ...

Studies have linked ticks on six continents to alpha-gal syndrome and its unusual symptoms. An entomologist explains what ...

Islanders’ diets are being upended by an onslaught of alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-induced allergy to meat and dairy. The post ...

A Boston baby is hospitalized with seizures and brain damage after a tick bite on Martha's Vineyard may have led to Powassan ...

Ticks do have immune systems but they operate very differently from ours. Like humans, ticks have cellular signalling pathways that help detect and respond to infection. Known as Toll, IMD and ...

Summer is a time for romping through the woods, swimming, cookouts and other assorted outdoor activities. Staying safe during the warm weather months takes many forms, but something many forget is ...

Public health officials are investigating whether a newborn girl on Martha’s Vineyard contracted the serious but rare ...

The study, published Friday in the journal iScience, was conducted by researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment ...

Climate change may be helping longhorned ticks spread Ehrlichiosis across the U.S. more effectively. The infection ...

You know Lyme disease. But across areas of the Northeast, incidents of "anaplasmosis" – a different vector-borne illness – ...