Tick bites are common, and with the rising incidences ... using the excess stored blood feed as they evolve into a nymph. The ...

A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...

While ticks are active, Wisconsinites can contract Lyme disease, a bacterial infection spread by deer ticks ... dogs are ...

the tick can get the bacteria that causes Lyme disease and then potentially spread it to humans through its bite. Other animals, like white-tailed deer, are "incompetent hosts," so while they are ...