By looking at the parasite body and leg colors, you can quickly tell the difference between engorged deer ticks and engorged ...

In the Northeast and Midwest, deer ticks are carriers ... getting positive results on that doesn’t mean that your dog has ...

Other animals, like white-tailed deer, are "incompetent hosts," so while they are a food source for blacklegged ticks, they do not transmit the Lyme disease bacteria. Blacklegged ticks typically ...

Lyme Disease: Lyme disease is an infection caused by a spiral shaped bacterium called a spirochete. This bacterium is carried in the gut of the deer tick Ixodes dammini ... be transmitted by the bites ...

Other animals, like white-tailed deer, are "incompetent hosts," so while they are a food source for blacklegged ticks, they do not transmit the Lyme disease bacteria. Blacklegged ticks typically ...

Cold weather doesn’t mean ticks are gone. In the past month, nine dogs in Fulton County have tested positive for Lyme disease. The Fulton County Animal Center took in 21 dogs last month, with nine ...

Other animals, like white-tailed deer, are "incompetent hosts", so while they are a food source for blacklegged ticks, they do not transmit the Lyme disease bacteria. Blacklegged ticks typically ...

Oct. 23, 2024 — Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in Europe. Up to 70,000 new cases are estimated each year in Austria alone. The bacterial infection can cause ...

the tick can get the bacteria that causes Lyme disease and then potentially spread it to humans through its bite. Other animals, like white-tailed deer, are “incompetent hosts”, so while they are a ...