ticks

While its bite isn't as dangerous as blacklegged tick, which spreads Lyme disease, lone star ticks do cause plenty of health problems, and they are far more hawkish in locating a host.

Extreme heat or flooding may not be to blame for Sarasota's malaria outbreak, but scientists say changing weather patterns could still increase risk for mosquito-borne diseases.

Static electricity might help ticks zoom through the air to grab onto people and animals. A study found that the static charges we pick up from the environment may be giving the parasites a boost to their next meal.

Blacklegged ticks, the arachnids that carry Lyme disease, are out and about. Here's how to stay safe.

Patients who have digestive symptoms only after eating red meat may have developed an allergy caused by ticks. The CDC says hundreds of thousands of people may have been affected over the past decade.

Lyme Disease isn't the only tick-driven illness that residents of the northeast should worry about. The CDC says cases of Babesiosis, which can cause flu-like symptoms, are on the rise in 8 states.

Lyme disease has been called the great imitator because its symptoms can look like anything from multiple sclerosis and lupus to Alzheimer’s disease or...