Tick bites can look very different from person to person, Dr. Melissa Levoska, an assistant professor of dermatology at the ...

Each year as the temperature drops and the grass once again turns green, the Butte County Mosquito and Vector Control ...

Sometimes, it can pass on Rocky Mountain spotted fever or Colorado tick fever. The deer tick is the size of a poppy seed. After a feeding, it can triple in size. Sometimes, it can pass on Lyme disease ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ticks are tiny, blood-sucking creatures that can be found in a variety of habitats all over the world. While they may seem harmless, they are carriers of several serious diseases that can affect both ...

Deer ticks are extremely small, with tick nymphs being about the size of the period at the end of this sentence ... In some cases (25%), there is a red, ring-like rash that occurs at the site of the ...