many Virginia residents and visitors may be enjoying the outdoors at increasing rates. Here’s all you need to know about ticks within the state in 2024. Josh Bernick, vector-borne disease ...

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - The Virginia Department of Health is asking for ticks to help its research into the insects and the diseases they may carry and transmit. In the Shenandoah Valley ...

Virginia opossums are omnivores, and Deal-Sosa explained they "eat a variety of foods such as road kill, frogs and even ticks." SB 30, which has over a dozen bipartisan sponsors, would proclaim ...

Tick season is back, and 10 News talked with a doctor with Carilion Clinic, and professor with Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. Dr. Stephanie Lareau said it’s especially important that ...

A new twist has emerged in UVA’s ongoing research on the link between the lone star tick and an allergy to red meat: In Texas and other Gulf states where the invasive fire ant is common, the allergy ...

Virginia took the lead on a pair of free throws from Latasha Lattimore with 1:43 to go, but a pair of UVA turnovers allowed ...

Not all tick bites cause Lyme disease ... Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin. But Lyme disease is also found in other parts of the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Other things that ...

A New Hampshire senator, with help from a fifth grade class, is trying to make the Virginia opossum the Granite State's ...