When it's freezing cold and snowy outside, ticks might not spring to mind, but a team at Mount Allison University wants to ...

Ticks are small insects that suck blood (human and animal). Because they are so small - around the size of a pinhead - they are barely visible to the human eye. If you get bitten by a tick, contact ...

"And it depends on what stage you're catching the patient in after the bite," she adds. Depending on the type of tick and the individual person's immune system, they may have a large obvious rash — or ...

But one tick bite turned her entire world upside down as she caught Lyme disease, a bacterial infection passed to humans by ...

Biology professor Vett Lloyd says the traditional way of dealing with tick bites has been to "wait and see" if people show signs of getting ill, and then to start them on antibiotics for 10 to 21 ...

The Carletonville SPCA warns that the recent good rain has caused an escalation in tick bite fever among pets in our towns as ...

Most deer tick bites are harmless. The spread of disease by deer ticks is not common. Even in high risk areas, only 2% of deer tick bites cause Lyme disease. Most people who get Lyme disease live in ...

Studies indicate that less than 10% of people bitten by the Lone Star tick ever develop an allergic reaction to red meat ...

People that do notice tick bites often see a bump that is: Small Itchy Raised The bump may look similar to a mosquito bite, the Mayo Clinic says. However, that kind of reaction can easily be ...

Wyoming already had three well-known ticks that are harmful to humans in the state: The Rocky Mountain wood tick, ...

Tick borne encephalitis is usually spread to people who have travelled abroad to other parts of Europe, as well as China and ...

Ticks are so small and hard to see that most people don't notice when a tick bites them. To make tick bites even harder to identify, "ticks have factors in their saliva that prevent pain ...