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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...