Epidemiologist Elizabeth Schiffman, who supervises the Vectorborne Diseases Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, ...

Lyme disease gets a lot of attention, but as there's been an uptick in deer tick numbers over the years, another illness has ...

No treatment is available Powassan virus and about 10% of victims with severe cases die, while half of survivors have ...

The Department of Homeland Security said the facility "does not and has not performed research on Lyme disease." ...

STEUBENVILLE — Recent public health funding cuts by the Centers for Disease Control will impact the Jefferson County General Health District’s respiratory virus testing, Health Commissioner Andrew ...

Powassan virus is primarily transmitted to humans by one of Minnesota’s 13 tick species: the blacklegged tick, also known as ...

23, 2024 — Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne ... How the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Enters Our Cells Mar. 28, 2024 — Researchers have identified how the tick-borne ...

Like Lyme disease, Powassan virus is spread by the blacklegged tick (deer tick), as well as by groundhog ticks and squirrel ticks, but these latter two rarely bite humans. However, while Lyme ...

University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab processed 4,776 tick submissions including samples from 398 towns, representing all of Maine’s 16 counties. The majority ...