How an emerging class of tick-borne viruses escape human immune defenses

Warmer temperatures bring out ticks that spread diseases such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. But another ...
CBS News

Tick season is expected to be worse than normal as ER visits rise in much of the U.S.

Ian Lee is a CBS News correspondent based in London, where he reports for CBS News, CBS Newspath and CBS News 24/7. Lee is a multi-award-winning journalist whose work covering major international ...
New York Post

TikTok’s tick-removal tricks to skip — and how to avoid ‘mouthparts left behind in the skin’

Tick these TikTok tricks off your list. With the rise in disease-harboring ticks across the country also comes an uptick in viral hacks to remove the nasty suckers. But don’t believe everything you ...
The Boston Globe

There’s a terrifying uptick in tick-borne illnesses. Hope may finally be on the horizon.

Amid the alarming rise in tick-borne diseases, particularly here in New England, researchers are working on promising approaches to better protect people while they spend time outdoors. Technologies ...
Polygon

The Tick (2016) is officially making the leap to Netflix this July

Usually, when you get multiple interpretations of the same superhero, at least one of them is going to be bad. As far as Batman movies go, just over half of them are good, and while Sam Raimi’s take ...
The New Yorker

The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us

It was a perfect day for a blood meal. A salt breeze blew over the western shore of Martha’s Vineyard, riffling the meadow grass under a pale-blue sky. They’d been waiting by the footpath all ...
New York Post

Little-known tick bite disease leaves man nonverbal — what to know about the rising threat

A New Hampshire man is battling a serious tick-borne virus that has left him in critical condition. According to friends and family, John Reagan, 66, is nonverbal after he was bitten by a tick while ...
Forbes

The Rising Threat Of Tick-Borne Diseases In America—Here’s What To Know

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Tick-borne diseases, including Lyme, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and alpha-gal syndrome, ...
Yahoo

Rare tick-borne virus turns deadly fast as US cases reach record high, experts warn

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tick on grass A rare and potentially fatal tick-borne illness currently spreading across the United States can be traced back to a ...
Times Union

Two new tick species descend on the Hudson Valley and Catskills

WINDHAM — Keith Hendricks was about to unzip his tent flap near a hiking trail in Windham when he stopped short. On the other side of the flap was what he described as about 20 lone star ticks.
Yahoo

A tick virus now surging in New England can be traced back to an Ontario 4-year-old's death in 1958

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A little-known tick-borne virus is appearing far more often in the northeastern United States than it once ...
The Boston Globe

Tick-borne illness has gained a foothold in New England. Here’s how.

In the autumn of 1958 on a family farm in rural Northern Ontario, Canada, a 4-year-old boy got sick. One moment he was doing chores in the barn with his brothers; the next, he seemed helpless. His ...