Dog ticks and wood ticks don’t carry the infection. The Cleveland Clinic offers tips on how to spot ticks and remove them.

About 5,000 years ago, a bacterium that was primarily transmitted via ticks made a switch to louse. That may have been a ...

Officials recommend using insect repellents and performing tick checks as cases have increased over five years, reaching ...

Joshua Meyerson, medical director for the Health Department of Northwest Michigan, said springtime is when the department ...

Lyme disease and tick-borne illnesses have also been on the rise nationally. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPPHS) officials are alerting the public about the recent identification of a tick new to Montana known as Ixodes scapularis, commonly referred ...

In today’s Health Alert, tick-borne illnesses are on the rise, and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is ...

The number of cases of Lyme Disease in Marquette County has exploded in recent years, besting statistics for the state of ...

TheMontana Department of Public Health and Human Services is alerting the public about the identification of a new tick in ...

Most relapsing fever bacteria that infect humans are spread by ticks, but Borrelia recurrentis is unique in being transmitted between humans via body ...

Ancient genomes reveal that a bacterial fever jumped from human-borne ticks to lice around the time wool textiles became ...