Toronto’s active surveillance program is intended to document locations where blacklegged ticks have become established using a tick dragging method. Tick dragging is a process to collecting ticks in ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) In the Northeast, 50% of adult blacklegged ticks and up to 25% of nymphs carry the bacteria causing Lyme disease. The study analyzed data from 1989 to 2021 ...

Signs and symptoms of Lyme disease can vary from person to person after being bitten by an infected blacklegged tick (deer tick) or western blacklegged tick. Lyme disease occurs in stages. The signs ...

Once a tick attaches itself—not by burrowing into the skin, but by its hypostome located near its mouth that resembles a barbed stylus—it releases an anesthetic much like a mosquito does.