Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Concerns about under-reporting of lone star tick bites that can cause a meat allergy are mounting in New York and other states as ...

ER tick bite reporting in the Northeast hit 264 visits for tick bites per 100,000 ER visits in May during the first seven days of the month, the most recent data show. That one-week of tick bites was ...

Blacklegged tick populations in New England and New York aren’t exploding, but the number of ticks carrying disease-causing pathogens has risen sharply over recent decades. Research led by Dartmouth ...

Why is it that some people seem to come into contact with ticks more often than others? How can I avoid ticks? Can the tick that has attached to me transmit Lyme disease? With the goal of helping ...