NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WWLP) – The first human case of a new tick disease in the Northeast has now been found in Connecticut. The disease carried by Gulf Coast ticks is called Rickettsia parkeri ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is alerting the public to the first known occurrence of the Asian longhorned ...

The first-ever recorded Northeast case of a tick-borne disease was reported in Connecticut, officials said. Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis is a type of spotted fever transmitted through infected ...

LANSING – It’s officially tick season across Michigan. As warmer weather approaches, so does the increased risk of encounters with the tiny parasites. And while there are more than 20 known species in ...

(WFSB) - An emerging tick-borne illness from an invasive species of tick has been confirmed in a person in Connecticut. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station reported on Monday that the ...

The first human case of a new tick-borne disease in Connecticut has been confirmed. According to the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, the first locally acquired human case of Rickettsia ...

State health and agriculture officials have confirmed the first known case of the Asian longhorned tick in Kansas.

The USDA has confirmed an Asian longhorned tick was pulled off a dog in Butler County. The tick is now confirmed in 24 Ohio ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One spreads Lyme disease. The bite of another may cause a lifelong meat allergy. And yet another is new in town, having traveled north from warmer climates toting Rocky Mountain ...

Connor Edwards, a 30-year-old man from Cannock, Staffordshire, has been left bedbound and wheelchair-bound after a tick bite from a mountain biking trip five years ago. Before the tick bite, Connor ...