Tick season has arrived in Illinois. While there are around 15 different known species in Illinois, experts warn that there ...

THE HSE has issued an urgent warning over a bacterial infection caught outdoors in summer months that can lead to serious illness. And up to 400 people in Ireland are affected by the disease each ...

The emerging number of Powassan cases in Minnesota is one of the reasons the National Institutes of Health gave Matthew ...

Just in time for tick season, new research is shining a light on how animals develop resistance to tick bites, which points toward the possibility of developing more effective vaccines against the ...

The weather is warming up, and ticks are starting to jump on our pets. The experts at Cascades Humane Society are explaining ...

Lyme disease might be the most common tick-borne illness, but there are several other diseases you should know about this summer.

Tick season is upon New England — and some unexpected visitors have come up north to join the usual crew, one study found. A University of Massachusetts Amherst center has found and studied two ...

Health officials are urging pet owners and landscapers to be aware as a bacterial disease detected in central Illinois this ...

Tularemia, which can affect humans and pets, found in central Illinois after weeks of reports of ill and dead squirrels in nearby Urbana.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Most people think of tick bites as nuisances or, at worst, vectors for Lyme disease.