Before going for a hike or hitting a park this summer, here’s what you need to know about ticks — and the diseases they carry ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is urging the public to be on the lookout for Asian longhorned ticks. They're not the only tick South ...

In South Carolina, there are four ticks that you should especially be aware of. Here are the worst tick types in the area, where they live, the diseases they transmit, and what they look like.

“It has been an interesting year for ticks in South Carolina,” said Emily Owens Pickle, a researcher in the University of South Carolina’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistic ...

An invasive species of tick, not commonly found in the United States, has shown up in South Carolina, according to the South Carolina Department of Environmental Control. DHEC says a large ...

South Carolina meat lovers may want to do all they can to prevent bites from the lone star tick. It’s tick season in South Carolina until the end of September and while all these blood-sucking ...

KIDS COUNT report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation ranks South Carolina among the bottom 12 in overall child wellbeing. That's an improvement, aided by drops in teen births and the percentage of ...

Piantadosi said tick-borne illnesses may be a bigger problem than we realize, and that more scientific advances need to be ...

Black-legged ticks, like the adult female pictured, are found throughout South Carolina. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention As South Carolinians enjoy the great outdoors this summer ...

Watch out when walking through tall blades of grass ― you don't want to get bitten by a tick. These creepy crawlers ... Eastern U.S. Commonly found in the south. ∎ Transmission: Ehrlichia ...