The Military Tick Identification/Infection Confirmation Kit program has expanded, and the Defense Health Agency-Public Health vector-borne disease team is now conducting additional off-season ...

Recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, studies estimate about 476,000 Americans may be diagnosed with Lyme disease each year. But there’s another fast-growing tick-borne condition ...

Long Star ticks are generally found in the West, but they've recently made the jump to the East Coast, too. (NIAID/) This story originally featured on Outdoor Life. Our love of the outdoors can bring ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Temperatures remain spring-like and warm in South Dakota- but if you’re heading outside, then beware of ticks. The South Dakota Department of Health (DOH) says they’ve ...

Ticks are active in Fairfax County almost year round, including warm winter days. Lyme disease is still the best known and most common disease spread by ticks in Virginia, but there are others such as ...

Four nonnative tick species have been identified in the state in recent years. The ticks “were identified on human travelers returning to Connecticut from 2019 to 2023,” according to the Connecticut ...

Do you have ticks? Does your dog or cat have ticks? If so, the researchers at Rutgers University want to know about them. Rutgers has launched a new citizen science program called NJ Ticks 4 Science ...

BILLINGS – A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease – the most common disease spread by ticks in the United States, estimated ...

With summer here, nature trails and other outdoor spots are calling and while reminding South Dakotans about preventing tick bites, public health officials are asking residents to play the role of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Data indicates a big uptick in the amount of emergency room cases for tick bites seen in the U.S. in July 2025. By July 6, the ...