It’s a rite of spring and summer: steeling yourself for the onslaught of tiny but potentially devastating ticks that spread diseases like Lyme and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. This summer could be ...

NEW HAVEN, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut scientists warned of increased tick activity. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, or CAES, issued the warning on Monday. It said that there have been ...

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Here’s a little nightmare fuel for people living near forests or other wooded areas. Scientists have just found evidence that some bloodsucking ticks can potentially make themselves cozy inside our ...

Q: What is the safest way to get a tick out of my dog’s body? Should I use tweezers or gloved hands? Are there ways to prevent ticks from sucking on his body? A: Whatever you do, don’t remove ticks ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Be prepared to see more ticks this season. Maria Diuk-Wasser, professor of ecology at Columbia University, explained that it’s generally hard to predict if there will be an ...

As higher temperatures creep back across Massachusetts, so do ticks — tiny, resilient pests that carry an outsized public health threat. While it may seem that our bitterly cold winter would have ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — As the weather starts warming up, some experts have turned their attention toward the emergence of ticks. Pest control experts have already begun their services to get ahead of ...

Jamie L. Cantoni, agricultural research technician and field technician for the active tick surveillance program, holds a tube filled with freshly caught ticks to be tested in Old Lyme, Connecticut on ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — There is an increasing number of blacklegged ticks with a higher-than-average infection rate of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, according to the ...

Massachusetts recently joined more than a dozen other states in mandating doctors and blood labs to report cases of an unusual tick-borne syndrome known as alpha-gal. The very dangerous and sometimes ...

Beginning in March 2026, social media users shared a rumor originating from a person identifying herself as a holistic doctor named Sarah Outlaw, whose posts claimed "farmers are reporting boxes of ...