There's a new medical issue on Martha's Vineyard, and it's impacting the way people eat. It's known as "alpha-gal syndrome," ...

Public health agencies are urging people to take precautions when spending time outdoors, such as using insect repellent and ...

The invasive longhorned tick species is posing new health risks as scientists warn that it could potentially lead to an ...

Climate change may be helping longhorned ticks spread Ehrlichiosis across the U.S. more effectively. The infection ...

A Boston baby is hospitalized with seizures and brain damage after a tick bite on Martha's Vineyard may have led to Powassan ...

A mom says her infant daughter may be the patient that health officials said is under investigation for having a rare ...

More people are being diagnosed with a syndrome that can cause hives, stomach pain and nausea after eating certain animal ...

The study, published Friday in the journal iScience, was conducted by researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment ...

Public health officials are investigating whether a newborn girl on Martha’s Vineyard contracted the serious but rare ...

Western Michigan U. scholar says paper is a thought experiment, not an endorsement of spreading illness; and he eats meat.

Ticks do have immune systems but they operate very differently from ours. Like humans, ticks have cellular signalling pathways that help detect and respond to infection. Known as Toll, IMD and ...

You know Lyme disease. But across areas of the Northeast, incidents of "anaplasmosis" – a different vector-borne illness – ...