While ticks can be active year-round, spring marks the start of peak tick season, when they’re most prevalent.

But a new study finds bites from two other tick species – the blacklegged tick and Western blacklegged wood tick – can ...

Above: Purdue tick researcher Chhoki Sherpa views Asian longhorned tick while working in Cate Hill lab in Whistler Hall. The more we learn about ticks, the more committed we all should be about ...

In alpha-gal syndrome, the immune system overreacts to a sugar known as galactose-α-1,3-galactose, or "alpha-gal" for short.

As temperatures get warmer, the St. Joseph County Health Department is asking for your help in fighting tick-borne illnesses.Those experts are saying that in Sa ...

not for other germs that they — or other tick species — transmit. Insider's takeaway Deer ticks are the primary transmitters of a bacterial infection called Lyme disease. Its early symptoms ...