Tick bites often go unnoticed at first, but they can carry serious health risks. These tiny parasites can carry diseases such ...

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne illness in the United States, a potentially disabling infection caused by bacteria transmitted through the bite of an infected tick to people and pets.

Janine Hauck doesn't know which tick gave her anaplasmosis and Lyme disease. She just remembers the fatigue, weakness and ...

(WJAR) — Martha’s Vineyard health officials said they are investigating a potential infection of a serious tick-borne disease. According to officials, a resident is potentially infected with Powassan ...

Grammy award-winning pop star Justin Timberlake, 44, recently took to Instagram to share his diagnosis of Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that he said was “relentlessly debilitating, both mentally ...

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Maryland has one of the highest Lyme disease rates in the nation. However, federal funding lapses, cancellations and delays have left research at local institutions, including Johns Hopkins University ...

A Massachusetts mother has identified her newborn daughter, who has a possible case of Powassan virus, which is under investigation by health officials on Martha's Vineyard. Health officials did not ...

There's an urgent warning from the family of a Dutchess County man, who they say died from a virus spread through an infected tick bite. "I don't think I've really accepted it, it's a hard thing to ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WSIL) -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is urging residents to take precautions against tick bites after a state resident contracted Powassan, a tick-borne illness ...