New England is warming faster than the rest of the world, which has correlated with a marked uptick in cases of tick-borne ...

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

A mom says her infant daughter may be the patient that health officials said is under investigation for having a rare ...

A Boston baby is hospitalized with seizures and brain damage after a tick bite on Martha's Vineyard may have led to Powassan ...

Public health officials are investigating whether a newborn girl on Martha’s Vineyard contracted the serious but rare ...

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

Ticks do have immune systems but they operate very differently from ours. Like humans, ticks have cellular signalling pathways that help detect and respond to infection. Known as Toll, IMD and ...

The study, published Friday in the journal iScience, was conducted by researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment ...

You know Lyme disease. But across areas of the Northeast, incidents of "anaplasmosis" – a different vector-borne illness – ...

More people are being diagnosed with a syndrome that can cause hives, stomach pain and nausea after eating certain animal ...

Ticks have long been an unwelcome part of New York summers, but in recent years, illnesses caused by tick bites have been ...