Michiganders are urged to maintain a diligent eye against biting insects as they can pass on harmful diseases. What to know about arboviruses.

As temperatures climb, reports of tick-borne diseases are also on the rise. But experts stress that a tick’s presence in your ...

As the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches—a disaster that reshaped New Orleans and stunned the nation—it's an important moment to reflect on the value of heeding warnings and ...

UConn Health's Dr. Kevin Dieckhaus tells what to watch for with ticks, and when Dr. Kevin Dieckhaus, director of the UConn Health ...

In the latest sign of climate change impacting human health in Quebec, authorities on Monday confirmed the first case in the ...

Officials say the invasive Asian longhorned tick has been found in Maine for the first time. The tick was found in Cumberland County. The tick was submitted through University of Maine Cooperative ...

With summer in full swing, many people now find themselves picking off one of the season’s least-favorite guests: ...

After Vett Lloyd was bitten by a tick in 2011, she centred her life’s work around the parasitic arachnid that nearly ruined ...

Powassan virus (POWV), a type of flavivirus closely related to the Zika and Dengue viruses, is an emerging tick-borne virus ...

Ticks do have immune systems but they operate very differently from ours. Like humans, ticks have cellular signalling pathways that help detect and respond to infection. Known as Toll, IMD and ...

While the study didn’t find evidence of these invasive ticks bringing new diseases to the U.S., experts say they could one ...