Clear away tall grasses and brush like honeysuckle around your home and the perimeter of your property. Install a fence ...

Ticks! They’re summer’s most unwelcome guests and are lurking everywhere: on golf courses and hiking trails, in backyard gardens and even in city parks. And this year appears to be especially ...

Dr. Mather said there's some good news. As hot, dry days are expected to increase throughout the summer, more deer ticks will die. He believes Massachusetts is already past the peak of tick season.

Visits to the Emergency Room for tick bites this summer are spiking well above those of previous years, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data (CDC) shows.

Every year, nearly 31 million people in the U.S. are bitten by a tick. Tick-related illnesses like Lyme disease are on the rise, a trend experts attribute to climate change, human expansion into ...

Not anymore. Summer might be the peak of tick season, and the time of year when people need to be aware of tick-borne illnesses such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but ticks and ...

A tick bite doesn’t always lead to illness. “If you remove a tick within 24 hours of attachment, it’s fairly unlikely that you will get infected,” said Telford.

Tick season is here. Not only are there more ticks, but also a greater variety of species than ever in the tri-state area, with many carrying Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases.

Data: tick numbers rising and peaking earlier UMass Memorial Health reported 177 cases of patients diagnosed with tick bites in the health system's emergency rooms so far this year. The 177 bites ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ticks can be active in any season and it’s important to check for and remove the bloodsuckers as quickly as possible — especially after you’ve been outside hiking, gar… ...