With the number of tick bite-related emergency room visits at a five-year high, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a Maryland-based infectious diseases doctor is ...

The tiny insects carry dangerous diseases, making this doctor more concerned about them than snakes and bears. Here’s how to ...

Tick season is shaping up to be exceptionally "bad" this year. What that means and what you can do about it.

Hospital visits for tick bites hit record numbers in Massachusetts. Here's what an expert recommends after being bitten.

Peak tick season has arrived in Tennessee. Here’s where ticks are most common, the diseases they can spread and how to ...

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 professor has received in recent years. Michael Skvarla, assistant ...

If you think the recent freezing temperatures will have any effect on Rhode Island’s surging tick populations, think again. “One thing people need to know about ticks is they’re not killed by the cold ...

During the fourth week of April, about 114 out of every 100,000 emergency department visits nationwide were for tick bites.