Ticks and the diseases they carry are only becoming more common. But new treatments and vaccines might not be too far off.

The Sunday hunting bill adds deer urine to the list of explicit exceptions to the baiting rule. The purpose of the clause is ...

What can medical scientists learn from white-tailed deer that can protect us from ... most common vector-borne disease in ... the same months when people and their pets are most active outdoors.

The type of tick that typically carries disease in New England is the deer tick, which can be as small as a poppy seed.

ST. PAUL — As if they weren’t horrible enough for spreading Lyme and other nasty human diseases, now we can hate blacklegged ticks for carrying chronic wasting disease that kills deer.