The tick population is “exploding” all across the United States, as spurred by warming temperatures. And Pennsylvania was found to have some of the highest rates of ticks in the country ...

Certain tick species are spreading to areas they've never been found before, carrying new health risks. Scientists are trying to carry out surveys to see where they are, so local doctors can know.

With Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses already on the rise, experts are urging residents to exercise “extreme caution” when spending time outdoors.

After Vett Lloyd was bitten by a tick in 2011, she centred her life’s work around the parasitic arachnid that nearly ruined her ...

Health departments struggle to adequately survey for ticks to warn doctors about new species and the diseases they carry.

Inside Douglas Norris' lab at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is a healthy stack of envelopes — not with letters inside, but with ticks.

Martha's Vineyard residents are avoiding red meat and dairy in droves — but that's due to tick-borne illness rather than dietary choice, the New York Times reports. Martha's Vineyard is an East ...

These ticks are about the size of a sesame seed, and are often so small that cows and livestock could host thousands of the insects – and have transmit diseases from livestock to humans.

The nonnative species from Europe, Latin America and Eastern Africa reached the United States by latching on to travelers, a study by researchers in the state shows, offering clues about how ticks ...