PORTLAND (WGME) -- Tick experts are warning Mainers to prepare for an increase in tick populations this spring, following a winter that was not consistently cold enough to reduce their numbers.

For more information on any of these, see the Centers for Disease Control Web site (www.cdc.gov). Giardia ... This bacterium is carried in the gut of the deer tick Ixodes dammini. The tick becomes ...

Tick-borne diseases naturally circulate between blacklegged ticks and wild animals. Animals such as rodents, small mammals and white-tailed deer are the reservoirs (the source) of the tick-borne ...

A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease – the ...

Does the rise in diseases like Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever mean tick populations are on the rise? Are there eco-friendly ways to control ticks?” — ...

A farmed white-tail deer from Osceola County was found with CWD.. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, Mich. (FOX 2) - The first case of chronic wasting diease (CWD), a deadly neurological disease that impacts ...

An adult buck found ill in Salem Township has tested positive for the fatal neurological disease, which affects white-tailed deer, elk and moose.

Doctors diagnosed 12 patients with the virus, three of whom acquired it locally. Experts issue urgent warning about dangerous ...

Washtenaw County is now the 15th county in the state where the Department of Natural Resources has identified chronic wasting ...

After feeding, it can double or triple in size. Sometimes, it can pass on Rocky Mountain spotted fever or Colorado tick fever. The deer tick is the size of a poppy seed. After a feeding, it can triple ...