Twenty-one blacklegged ticks were submitted to the Thunder Bay District Health Unit between the end of September and the end ...

Lyme Disease may be primarily a summer concern, but it is becoming more prevalent in Ohio and the Miami Valley.

Oct. 23, 2024 — Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in Europe. Up to 70,000 new cases are estimated each year in Austria alone. The bacterial infection can cause ...

Deer ticks that can carry Lyme disease are very tiny, as shown here scaled on a dime in their various 24 months of life stages. Photo courtesy of CDC With hunting season in full swing, the threat of ...

Deer ticks that can carry Lyme disease are very tiny, as shown here scaled on a dime in their various 24 months of life stages. Photo courtesy of CDC With hunting season in full swing, the threat ...

A peaceful walk with her dog led to Sandra Issa acquiring a tick bite — and, ultimately, to her having to stay away from red ...

Deer butchers and hunters processing their own deer share that whitetail deer harvests are coming in with extremely high counts of deer ticks. One local butcher friend of mine counted more than 60 ...

Starting in January, the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit will stop accepting ticks from people trying to determine if they’re at risk for Lyme disease.

Temperatures are beginning to cool in northwestern Ontario this fall, but officials say tick activity is still on the rise ...

The risk of contracting Lyme disease is potentially higher for people who work in the countryside because it is spread by infected ticks that can lurk in wooded, marshy or grassy areas.

On one property alone, students collected 50 deer ticks. "One property, the ticks we collected, had many of the borrelia pathogen, borrelia burgdorferi, the agent that causes Lyme disease," Marini ...

Public Health England estimates there could be around 3,000 new cases of Lyme disease a year - however the charity Lyme Disease UK suspects the real number to be 'at least three times higher'.