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 ...

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 ...

In fact, adult black-legged ticks stand up to winter weather just fine, and deer tick season never really ends, said Jody L.

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 ...

University of Rhode Island professor Thomas Mather ... but tick season has already begun. Nationwide, ticks can be active year-round as long as the temperature is above freezing, but ticks are ...

Dress to prevent contact by wearing long-sleeved shirts and ... TickSpotters is a free, quick-turnaround tick identification program at The University of Rhode Island. Submit a photo of the ...

Madison Beer is ready to make some bangers. The 26-year-old pop singer and social media star spent the past few years setting ...

In fact, the University of Rhode Island’s Tick Encounter Resource Center (TERC ... in a hamper full of moist clothing, it won’t be long enough to reproduce. “After coming inside from ...

He's kayaked the Mississippi, biked coast-to-coast and run marathons in all 50 states, so what's next for North Kingstown's Paul Mellor?