When it's freezing cold and snowy outside, ticks might not spring to mind, but a team at Mount Allison University wants to ...

Seasonal flu activity is on the rise, and statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) show type “A” and “B” influenza strains are the most reported ...

Read through these common errors that people often make when they go to a national park for the first time and keep them in mind for your trip.

Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV ... and protect neurons from harm. A map of deadly infectious diseases known to attack the central nervous system (CNS) of people who are already suffering ...

Around this time every year in Prior Lake, lakeside residents are deputized as lookouts. Their job: to keep an eye on the surface of the lake. “We do use volunteers for this program,” Jamie ...

By Jesse Elorm HEYMANNWe live in the most over-stimulated generation in history. A small study by Yeykelis, J.J. Cummings, and Reeves, published in the Journal of Communications in 2014, examined how ...

Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) has now been confirmed in locally acquired human cases in the U.K., with evidence of ...

Monday’s record high temperatures have signaled across the area that springtime and warmer temperatures aren’t too far away ...

Why are tick-borne illnesses on the rise across the U.S. and beyond, and what can we do to control tick outbreaks?

The allergy, known as alpha-gal syndrome, affects hundreds of thousands of Americans and is particularly prevalent in the southeastern United States.

R. conorii conorrii Rh. sanguineus (I. ricinus) Mediterranean spotted fever Rash (97%); single eschar; case–fatality rate without treatment (0–18%) R. conorii israelensis Rh. sanguineus ...

The deer tick is the size of a poppy seed. After a feeding, it can triple in size. Sometimes, it can pass on Lyme disease. Most wood tick bites are harmless. The spread of disease by wood ticks is not ...