Other animals, like white-tailed deer, are "incompetent hosts," so while they are a food source for blacklegged ticks, they do not transmit the Lyme disease bacteria. Blacklegged ticks typically ...

Here’s a look at how deer ticks have spread across the U.S. since 1996. While Lyme disease is most prevalent in the ...

Lyme disease is still the state’s most common reported tick-borne disease, but two other diseases – human anaplasmosis and babesiosis – can result from deer tick bites in ...

A research lab focusing on ticks has embarked on a project to assess how effective preventive Lyme disease measures are and ...

The deer tick is the only species known to transmit Borrelia mayoni and B. burgdorferi, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D., Colo.) asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to clarify whether he had said previously that Lyme disease was a ...

Other animals, like white-tailed deer, are "incompetent hosts," so while they are a food source for blacklegged ticks, they do not transmit the Lyme disease bacteria. Blacklegged ticks typically ...

They feed off birds and mammals (such as deer squirrels or sheep), so if there are animals around, there are more likely to be ticks too.” While the symptoms of Lyme disease you’ll often hear ...

Other animals, like white-tailed deer, are “incompetent hosts”, so while they are a food source for blacklegged ticks, they do not transmit the Lyme disease bacteria. Blacklegged ticks typically ...