In countries like USA and Canada, we don’t often worry about getting diseases from insect bites. For example, malaria is one ...

also called the deer tick or the bear tick. This type of tick carries Lyme disease, an illness that can cause a rash, flu-like symptoms, and joint pain. However, Mather stressed that there’s ...

"Deer populations have increased westward in Suffolk County so we are seeing [an] increase in tick numbers as a result." Kris Newby, a science writer who had her own long battle with Lyme disease ...

Lyme disease is caused by bacteria that live in the deer tick. People contract the disease after the tick has bitten them and been on their bodies for most of the day or longer. Symptoms go in ...

The black-legged tick, also known as deer tick, is the parasite that transmits Lyme disease and is common ... (People can submit pictures of ticks they spot to TickSpotter.) Both ticks, and ...