"We highly recommend that people be careful when they go out into wooded areas and go camping or hiking because they're so easy to overlook and prevention is the key," Northern Nevada Public Health ...

Lone star ticks, which originated in the southern United States, are on the move, potentially complicating the diagnosis of tickborne diseases in areas where they now overlap with ticks that cause ...

Maryland has one of the highest Lyme disease rates in the nation. However, federal funding lapses, cancellations and delays ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Preparing for the Summer also means preparing for tick season here in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Health Department wants you to stay informed with a new online tickborne ...

Blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus) on a leaf, carrier of the Lyme disease, 2005. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / James Gathany, William L. Nicholson. (Photo by Smith ...

A Lyme disease vaccine could be available soon, Axios reports. Earlier this month, Moderna announced two new development candidates for mRNA vaccines against Lyme disease. Pfizer and Valneva also have ...

More stories about creepy-crawly (or buzzing) pests and what to do about them. Lyme disease is a major threat in some western North Carolina counties and is moving east faster than most doctors’ ...

When Americans spend time in the great outdoors this summer, they don’t want to come back home with any uninvited guests. Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne disease in the United States, can ...

With spring underway, tick season will soon come with it, and insect surveillance experts in the Twin Cities are predicting Minnesota could experience a high number of Lyme disease cases and other ...

It's a common ritual of summer: with the warm weather comes more outdoor activities, and more encounters with disease-spreading pathogens. A summer favorite? In the U.S., the Lyme disease-carrying ...

Lyme disease, a bacterial tick-borne illness, can come with a host of vague symptoms. It can be difficult to properly diagnose, which many celebrities have spoken about. Stars like Avril Lavigne and ...

Lavigne is one of 300,000 Americans diagnosed with Lyme each year. — -- Singer Avril Lavigne revealed in the latest issue of People that she has been diagnosed with Lyme disease, which has left ...