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," ...

The last of 12 cooling towers that tested positive for the bacteria currently spawning a Legionnaires’ outbreak in Harlem is ...

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

New England is warming faster than the rest of the world, which has correlated with a marked uptick in cases of tick-borne ...

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

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

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

Nigeria has recorded a historic breakthrough in veterinary science with development of the first indigenous anti-tick vaccine ...

“Since 2008, the CAES has documented nearly 20 nonnative ticks found on human travelers returning from Central America, ...

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 ...