Tick bites spread dangerous diseases such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Once they attach themselves to a host, ticks are notoriously difficult to remove without breaking off ...

TICKS FOR THE FIRST TIME. A CONFIRMED CASE OF POWASSAN VIRUS IN SHARON. EXPERTS SAY THE TICK BORNE DISEASE IS MUCH RARER THAN LYME, BUT IT CAN BE DANGEROUS AND EVEN DEADLY. THE PEOPLE THAT I’VE ...

Summer on Long Island means sun, surf, sand — and ticks. The increasingly warm winters have made the voracious, tiny critters — which can carry a number of diseases — a year-round problem.

Tick bites can cause a range of different illnesses — and as the weather warms up, ticks can be particularly prevalent. In some areas, ticks have emerged even earlier due to milder winters ...

The mild winter will likely mean a larger tick population this year and an extended season that they are active, experts say. Ticks are tiny, eight-legged creatures that can carry disease.

Don't stomp it. Don't squish it. Don't flush it. The Marshfield Clinic wants that tick. Specifically, the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute wants not only that tick, but any others people find ...

If you’re anything like me, the thought of removing a tick from your dog or cat is high-key alarming. But not removing it puts your pet at risk for Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and ...

Every year, Sam Telford is asked the same question. "How bad will this year's tick season be?" Telford, a professor of infectious diseases and global health at Cummings School of Veterinary ...

Watch as Daniel Marconi (Jonathan), Cathryn Wake (Susan) and John Yi (Michael) give a special preview performance of 30/90 from Tick, Tick.. Boom! with accompaniment by Andrew David Sotomayor.

Both of these important parts of my life mean that I am exposed to ticks. Warmer weather brings additional opportunities for all of us to get out, but there are some risks from these parasitic ...