Keeping ticks away from your yard makes it safer to enjoy. One simple landscaping trick that could help discourage ticks is a ...

With the number of tick bite-related emergency room visits at a five-year high, a Maryland-based doctor has suggestions on what to do if you find a tick.

Every year, nearly 31 million people in the U.S. are bitten by a tick. Tick-related illnesses like Lyme disease are on the ...

Milder winters and rainy springs help the parasites thrive in the U.S., and emergency-room visits for bites are up.

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The black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis, also known as the deer tick, ranges across the eastern half of the country. It’s one of many disease-carrying ticks in the U.S. CDC ...

Hard-bodied ticks are the varieties of concern to hikers, campers, and pet owners. Ticks can bite people or pets, cause diseases, skin irritations, and allergic reactions in more sensitive people.

Ticks, sometimes mistakenly called insects, are actually arthropods belonging to the class Arachnide which also include mites, spiders, and scorpions. Ticks can be soft or hard-bodied.

Ticks carry a multitude of infectious diseases. meepoohyaphoto – stock.adobe.com In Suffolk, there were 3,299 reported cases of Lyme disease in 2023 — up from 2,668 the year before.