Ways to avoid ticks include spraying repellent on clothes and exposed skin, wearing long sleeves and pants, and tucking your pants into your socks, so ticks can't crawl up pant legs.

“We are certainly seeing tick activity across the state, from Long Island to Buffalo, all of it,‘’ she said, explaining that the black-legged ticks that are active now are ”leftovers" from ...

Long Island native Michael Carroll dug into ... Borrelia burgdorferi, from Shelter Island ticks in 1981. In 1990, researchers from the Yale University School of Medicine examined museum ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly 500,000 people will contract Lyme disease this year, from just a single tick bite. And currently there are over 2 million ...

This new evidence raises concerns about the spread of AGS, particularly in regions like Long Island, where ticks are a growing problem. What is alpha-gal syndrome? STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST ...

Lyme disease is the fastest-grown vector-borne illness in the United States, with over 476,000 new cases annually, according to the Global Lyme Alliance, a national not-for-profit organization whose ...