The CDC team in Fort Collins was researching improved detection methods for Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne illness in the United States, typically transmitted through tick bites. If left ...

There’s an epidemic of tick-transmitted Lyme disease, with possibly 476,000 people a year diagnosed and treated in the U.S.

While the disease, spread by ticks, has been reported in the UK in the past, most cases were believed to be linked to ...

Ticks are parasitic arachnids that feed on the blood of mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. They vary in size and ...