Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spring means warmer weather and an uptick in peak activity of nymph ticks making May the best time to highlight National Lyme ...

Inside a tick, the goal for the bacteria is to get past the digestive tract and infect the salivary glands, where it will accumulate and await transmission into the next mammal the tick feeds on, ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, together with international colleagues, have identified a protein on the surface of cells that is crucial to allowing the tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus to ...

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GOSHEN - Donna LaFountain knows about tick-bourne diseases. She and her husband have both had Lyme disease, and one of her two dogs has Ehrlichiosis, a disease that affects the immune system. So when ...

As the days warm in May, local health experts caution anyone heading outdoors to take simple measures to protect themselves from ticks and the diseases they can cause. The Centers for Disease Control ...