Borellia bacteria commonly infest wildlife such as deer, small rodents ... common one is a rash near the tick bite, sometimes ...

While ticks can be active year-round, spring marks the start of peak tick season, when they’re most prevalent.

The best plan for thwarting ticks is to adopt the “dork look” by tucking your shirt into your pants and pulling your socks up ...

Two more kinds of ticks can cause red meat allergies than previously thought. See the new species, learn where all 3 live, ...

People with a tick bite and potential exposure may get prophylactic postexposure antibiotics if it is noted that the tick is the deer tick, the bite occurred in a highly endemic area and the tick ...

Some tick bites can cause Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), making people allergic to red meat and some other mammal products. Three tick species in the U.S. are known to transmit AGS: the lone star tick ...

Lyme disease is probably the most widely known disease that can result from a bite from the black-legged tick (a.k.a. deer tick, Ixodes scapularis). According to Purdue Medical Entomology, the ...