Lyme disease occurs when a blacklegged tick that is infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (or sometimes, Borrelia mayonii) bacteria bites a human, and the incidence has been increasing throughout the ...

The less time a tick has to feed, the less saliva it can pump in, and the fewer tricks it can use to tilt the odds. For ...

As the fall hiking season approaches, public health officials are issuing a warning about the dangers of tick bites.

Hitherto, scientists have not fully understood why ticks are such dangerous disease vectors. A research team now shows that tick saliva inhibits the skin's defense function, thereby increasing the ...

Tick-borne diseases are making headlines more than ever this season, and one nasty tick called the lone star tick is making ...

Ticks have to be some of the most widely despised creatures in existence despite their important role in the ecosystem. They are found all across the United States, hanging out in almost every place ...

Is red meat making you sick hours after eating? You could have alpha-gal syndrome, a food allergy caused by tick bites that’s ...

The Conversation updates readers on a spreading red meat allergy linked to tick bites, notably from the lone star tick and ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst say a naturally occurring compound secreted by the skin of donkeys can effectively repel the most common human-biting tick. In fact, they assert ...

Until recently, scientists have not fully understood why ticks are such dangerous disease vectors. A research team led by Johanna Strobl and Georg Stary from MedUni Vienna's Department of Dermatology ...