There are no vaccines or medicines available to prevent or treat the Powassan virus ...
A public health expert explains why tick-borne diseases are on the rise, what they are, and how to keep yourself and loved ...
Cases of Powassan virus have hit the news in recent months because of the potentially life-altering, sometimes fatal, ...
The insects have four life stages: egg, larva, nymph and adult. The tiny blacklegged tick nymphs, which peak from May through ...
While many infections are asymptomatic, severe cases can cause neurological problems, with a fatality rate as high as 15 ...
As awareness of tickborne diseases increases, it's important to know which ticks can cause these diseases, where you can find ...
The CDC warned that emergency room visits due to tick bites are at their highest level since 2017. That may portend an ...
Up-close tick encounters are nothing new to Peter Krause. As a tick-borne disease researcher, he’s conducted fieldwork where these parasites live. After one trip to Block Island, off the coast of ...
In what’s only the fourth documented case worldwide, the tick-borne Rickettsia lanei was reported in Northern California, the ...