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.

As spring approaches and Harvard gardeners look forward to emerging plants, so too do they dread the arrival of the ...

Wyoming entomologists say ticks are beginning to come out and are warning about two new species that are particularly awful.

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 ...

To curb the spread of Lyme disease in the northeastern United States, scientists and public health experts for decades have ...

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

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) continue to impact Iowa’s deer population, prompting ...

With spring weather comes spring bugs, like fleas and ticks. Get them out of your way with one of these top tick removal kits ...

While most use winter as a chance for hibernation, around eight dozen people swarmed to the Brown County Music Center for the “Understanding Tick-borne Illness” conference Feb. 19 hosted by the Brown ...

There’s an epidemic of tick-transmitted Lyme disease, with some estimates putting the number of people diagnosed and treated in the U.S. at 476,000 people a year, according to the Centers for ...