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A UMass Amherst center has found and studied two ticks in Maine that can possibly infect people with rare, possibly fatal, ...

Recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies estimate that about 476,000 Americans may be diagnosed with Lyme ...

A recent death in Floyd County is being blamed on ehrlichiosis, a tick-borne illness. There were two ehrlichiosis deaths in ...

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

Country. Deer ticks are also out and are looking to latch onto any living thing that moves. They can usually be found along ...

“I have no idea if it’s related,” Raley finally told Butler, but “two months ago, I got bitten by a tick.” Butler looked at her. “That opens up some real possibilities,” she recalls ...

Similar but not identical to the East Coast “deer tick.” Western dog ticks, which can cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever. A new species of this tick — a relative of the one found mostly in ...

Striking fear and disgust into the hearts of many, ticks are an omnipresent fact of life. They live in all fifty US states and all seven continents, and one species even lives indoors. Ticks in West ...

What the Koturs didn’t know at the time was that they had found the first documented Black Legged Tick, commonly called the deer tick, in Montana. Until this point, the tick has only been seen ...

What the Koturs didn’t know at the time was that they had found the first documented Black Legged Tick, commonly called the deer tick, in Montana. Until this point, the tick has only been seen ...

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