As Pia Miranda returned home from her Aunt’s funeral late last year, a friend politely asked whether her outfit was “fancy ...

Ticks are active in Fairfax County almost year round, including warm winter days. Lyme disease is still the best known and most common disease spread by ticks in Virginia, but there are others such as ...

When people are dropped into the most dangerous of conditions – as when disaster strikes, or during exploration of another planet – they generally have the highest number of needs and the lowest ...

The life span of a deer tick is about two years and they develop through three stages: larva, nymph and adult. Their bite is painless and often is unnoticed, but they can carry Lyme disease. Photo ...

Finding one tick on your body is scary enough—tick-borne diseases are serious—but what if you found more than 10 on yourself in just one month? That's the plight of some farmers as the threat of ticks ...

Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that can cause Lyme disease in areas where pheasants are released, new research shows. Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that can cause Lyme ...

A close-up of a lone star tick, which has eight hairy brown legs, a bulbous brown body, a tiny white splotch on its back, and a small elongated head. Bites from the lone star tick can cause allergies ...