A new study finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks and 25% of the younger ticks in the Northeast US carry the bacteria ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during spring, summer, ...

Other animals, like white-tailed deer, are "incompetent hosts," so while they are a food source for blacklegged ticks, they do not transmit the Lyme disease bacteria. Blacklegged ticks typically ...

Lyme Disease: Lyme disease is an infection caused by a spiral shaped bacterium called a spirochete. This bacterium is carried in the gut of the deer tick Ixodes dammini. The tick becomes infected ...

Data from the largest US Lyme disease registry suggests that 90% of PLD patients are excluded from clinical trials.

The deer tick is the only species known to transmit Borrelia mayoni and B. burgdorferi, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.

An uptick in reported cases of Lyme disease since 2022 may have many factors, but one contributing factor may be the lengthening of tick season due to warmer temperatures appearing earlier in the ...

Jeers to Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh, who commissioned a wrong-headed plan that allows USDA agents to start killing deer ...

They feed off birds and mammals (such as deer squirrels or sheep), so if there are animals around, there are more likely to be ticks too.” While the symptoms of Lyme disease you’ll often hear ...

That finding, based on six years of gathering ticks from the island ... at reducing the spread of Lyme disease. Both Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket allow deer hunting to reduce the numbers ...