Red poultry mites are a direct threat to economically valuable birds, suspected of passing on diseases like Newcastle Disease. But they have also been shown to be part of a wider chain transmitting ...

KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Students at Tellico Plains Junior High School in Monroe County will spend the remainder of the year at Tellico Plains High School because of a bird mite infestation. Bird mites are ...

STAMFORD -- State entomologists say they found bird and dust mites in the Stamford Police Department, but no ticks. Their findings are in contrast to claims from the police officers' union that at ...

TELLICO PLAINS (WATE) – Monroe County Schools closed Tellico Plains Junior High School and moved students to Tellico Plains High School after multiple students showed up in the school’s clinic with ...

Bacteria which live symbiotically inside the blood-sucking pests called red poultry mites could be a new and effective target to prevent the spread of Salmonella and similar pathogens in chickens, ...