On a blisteringly hot, sunny day this summer, Emory University researcher Arabella Lewis made her way through the underbrush in a patch of woods in Putnam County, Georgia, about an hour southeast of ...

This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison finds that ticks can harbor transmissible amounts of the protein particle that causes Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), implicating the ...

Ticks are critters that can cause a slew of health issues (not just Lyme disease). Now, a new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the tick-borne illness ...

SANTA CRUZ — Winter storms have brought high surf and blanketing rainfall across Santa Cruz County and the Central Coast in recent weeks. But local health officials now warn it has likely brought ...

Thousands of cases of tickborne diseases are reported annually in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. One of the latest victims was Kevin Redding, the executive director for ...

Researchers with Baylor College of Medicine and Texas A&M AgriLife Research collaborated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, SCINet project and Ag100Pest Initiative ...