One preventative measure you can take against ticks is to treat your clothing and gear with products containing 0.5% permethrin. Permethrin can be used on boots, clothing and camping gear, and it ...

Black-legged ticks, like the adult female pictured, are found throughout South Carolina. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention As South Carolinians enjoy the great outdoors this summer ...

York, Maine, sprayed Bog Road Fields with insecticide due to a high volume of tick reports. Ticks were reported on playground equipment, picnic tables, and the building.

While ticks are active, Wisconsinites can contract Lyme disease, a bacterial infection spread by deer ticks. Rates of Lyme disease have tripled in Wisconsin over the past 15 years, according to DHS.

Black-legged ticks, like the adult female pictured, are found throughout South Carolina. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention As South Carolinians enjoy the great outdoors this summer ...

But in the U.S. research has been so far inconclusive about whether the Longhorned tick can transmit pathogens like those that cause Lyme disease. Regardless, more ticks overall often means more ...

That tick kit should contain: narrow tweezers, not wide ones, a baggie to put the tick in for identifying later, and an alcohol swab. Grab the tick by the mouth, pull slowly up and out, not sideways.

According to the data, rates of tick bite-associated visits to emergency departments in Wisconsin are slightly up from last year at 79 visits for tick bites per 10,000 ED visits, according to data ...

The tick essentially transfers a sugar molecule called alpha-gal to your body via the bite, and that molecule can cause allergic reactions to red meats and cheese.

As summer heats up, so does tick season, and with it comes the risk of Lyme Disease. Dr. Dylan Wyatt, an emergency medicine physician at Aspirus-St. Luke’s, answers some of questions on the topic.

Here in the U.S., Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness. It is spread by the bite of black-legged ticks infected with a bacterium known as Borrelia burgdorferi.

Ticks also figuratively suck because they’re just plain gross. According to the Centers for Disease Control, avoiding wooded and bushy areas is the best way to prevent tick bites. Unfortunately, this ...