Snowy winters actually help ticks survive. "Tick season will hit fast and hit hard," said the director of East Stroudsburg ...

Doctors say 90% of all diseases transmitted by an insect bite originate with ticks, even when a mosquito does the biting. As ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Will it get cold enough to kill ticks and why do we have more of them in Pennsylvania? Those are two common questions a Penn State ...

As Michigan’s weather warms, both ticks and humans are waking up from their winter dormancy – that means they could cross paths. And there’s nothing a tick likes more than to hitchhike on you and your ...

Powassan is a rare, but serious disease. Its rarity presents a challenge to those who study it. Research in a lab setting requires strict safety controls and investments that are hard to come by for ...

Texas is ranked third in the country for states with the worst ticks, according to a new ranking from Terminix. Ticks are the most active during spring and summer months. As people spend more time ...

NEW HAVEN, CT (WFSB) - State scientists said that rare exotic tick species that were detected in the state likely got there by hitchhiking on human travelers. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment ...