The wood tick (dog tick) is the size of an apple seed. After feeding, it can double or triple in size. Sometimes, it can pass on Rocky Mountain spotted fever or Colorado tick fever. The deer tick is ...

Sen. John Cornyn, R-TX, has introduced the Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program Enhancement Act in the U.S. Senate, which would help combat cattle fever tick infestations across the country.

Since the early 1900s, eradicating cattle fever ticks has challenged surveillance and quarantine programs designed to protect the U.S. and Texas cattle industry. Over the decades, scientists and ...

A 21-year-old woman became dizzy and hard of hearing before doctors found a parasite in her ear. J A Uppendahl via Unsplash Most people have experienced a kind of ringing or buzzing in their ears ...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is the deadliest tick-borne disease in the U.S. It's been a persistent problem on some tribal lands in the Southwest, where residents are at particular risk ...

SAN CARLOS APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION, ARIZ. — It's golden hour on an early December day at a cattle ranch on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. The sun is low, and the bulls have settled into ...

With urging from his wife, Hinton headed to the reservation's tribal hospital, where he was diagnosed with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever — the deadliest tick-borne disease in the U.S., and a particular ...

While most tick bites are harmless, they can sometimes lead to serious health issues for your pet. Just like humans, dogs can get diseases like Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

A significant number of cattle are confirmed to have died from tick fever at Bymount, north of Roma, in the latest blow for the small community battling a cattle tick outbreak.

But for a 21-year-old woman from Dharan, Nepal, the eerie sound ringing in her ear was indicative of something much more serious — a parasite. The woman arrived in an otorhinolaryngology, or ear, nose ...