Despite strong efforts by public health officials to warn our citizens about the risks, tick-borne disease cases are rising ...

A new study published in the Journal of Agromedicine shows that tick-borne illnesses are spreading throughout the U.S., ...

Don't ask state entomologist Kirby Stafford if this is going to be a bad year for ticks. "The ticks are always out there," Stafford said. "It's going to be a bad tick year, this year and every year." ...

Veterinary researchers have confirmed a previously unknown tick-borne infection in dogs, and the discovery is sharpening concern that household pets can signal new threats for people long before human ...

Carson City Health and Human Services has received numerous inquiries regarding ticks. In Nevada, ticks can transmit serious diseases such as Lyme disease, relapsing fever, Rocky Mountain spotted ...

Prevention basics • Reduce tick habitat around the home and avoid heavy brush and tall grass elsewhere. Keep the lawn cut short, and cut back tall grass and brush from around the property. When ...

As temperatures rise as a result of climate change, ticks carrying the deadly bacterial disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) may shift their feeding preferences away from dogs and toward humans ...

Ticks used to be something many hunters worried about in spring turkey season and early bow season, then mostly... The post ...