Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia are seeing unusually aggressive tick activity this year. As tick season rolls around, residents of tick-prone areas in the U.S. are readying to ...

Ohio State University has tested 6,000 ticks from all over the state for bacteria, viruses and disease-causing parasites over ...

Health officials urge Michiganders to take precautions to prevent tick bites as the blood-sucking arachnids spread to more heavily populated areas of the state. The number of Lyme disease cases in ...

Blacklegged tick populations in New England and New York aren’t exploding, but the number of ticks carrying disease-causing pathogens has risen sharply over recent decades. Research led by Dartmouth ...