With all the rain lately in the Chicago area, hospital systems such as Northwestern Medicine reported an increase in patients ...

Tick bites are sending more people to emergency rooms this July than any summer since 2017, according to new CDC data.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported a near record level of tick-bite related emergency room ...

Nationwide, the data shows that this year, for every 100,000 people who go to the ER, 268 of them are for tick bites. While that may seem small, it’s a big jump from previous years. That rate is up ...

There might be one silver lining to the drought gripping the island. Ticks hate dry conditions even more than we do.