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

In 2022, there were 1,570 reported cases of ehrlichiosis compared to 201 cases in 2000, when the disease first became nationally tracked. But this most recent case is even rarer than usual.

CAES said a tick with Ehrlichiosis was found in Fairfield County sometime between 2021 and now. Officials said they collected 8,700 longhorned ticks from four towns in southwestern Connecticut.

Molaei said that a rise in ehrlichiosis cases is expected in the future. The bacterial infection can be a serious illness, though most cases are not fatal with prompt treatment.

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

Normal ehrlichiosis symptoms usually begin five to 14 days after a tick bite, Dr. Sanjeev Swami, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics and pediatric infectious disease specialist at Children ...

So with that increase of the lone star tick population, you would expect to see an increase of ehrlichiosis." Scott Campbell, Suffolk County’s chief entomologist, on Wednesday.

Invasive Asian longhorned ticks are spreading across the U.S., raising fears of ehrlichiosis and other tick-borne diseases, ...

Ehrlichiosis is an infectious disease caused by a type of round bacteria that have the propensity to invade and infect the white blood cells (leukocytes). There are two primary types of white ...

Ehrlichiosis represents a group of infections that are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria from the bacterial family Anaplasmataceae (chiefly belonging to the genus Ehrlichia and Anaplasma ...

Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) is a tick-borne illness caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis. The distribution of this rickettsial disease parallels that of its major tick vectors, the Lone Star ...

Oklahoma is 'Ehrlichiosis Central,' and common lone star ticks, which carry it, are 'most active' now Flu-like illness spread via tick By Kelly Bostian Tulsa World Jul 4, 2018 0 ...