A UMass study found that rabbit ticks, which don't typically bite humans, can be carriers for a bacteria similar to the ...

Lyme disease is still the best known and most common disease spread by ticks in Virginia, but there are ... to provide you with information about the type of tick that bit you.

The types of ticks that you may encounter depend on where you live, he continued. “Different types of ticks in different parts of the U.S. carry certain diseases, and it is important to know ...

The test came back positive not just for babesiosis but also for Lyme disease, another far more common illness caused by the same type of tick ... collected 1,310 ticks in Virginia, Maryland ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst center has found and studied two ticks in Maine that are capable of infecting people with rare, possibly fatal, sicknesses. The New England Center of ...