Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, the deadliest tick-borne disease in the U.S., is a big problem on tribal lands in the Southwest ...

In most of the country, the disease is spread by ticks in the Demacentor ... commonly known as the brown dog tick, a species that thrives on the reservation. Entomologist Maureen Brophy, right ...

for brown dog ticks. She works as part of a CDC team combatting ... Doctors were puzzled by the onset of the new disease, and how it was strongly affecting children here, says Traeger, who has ...