Wearing protective clothing can also help keep ticks from attaching your skin, Sykes noted. Lyme disease can be serious in ...
Lyme disease is not a common health condition in dogs, but it’s not rare, either. Black-legged ticks carry this illness. As soon as they hatch, they need a blood meal to survive. These eight ...
"We live in a residential neighborhood, and you can walk up the side of the street and our dogs ... for ticks to thrive." Some ticks can transmit illnesses to humans, including Lyme disease ...
Cold weather doesn’t mean ticks are gone. In the past month, nine dogs in Fulton County have tested positive for Lyme disease. The Fulton County Animal Center took in 21 dogs last month, with nine ...
Lyme disease cases in the ... where it is spread by Ixodes pacificus ticks. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/ Rickettsia (RMSF) Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/Rickettsia (RMSF) is most often transmitted by ...
A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...
A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...
Not all ticks carry Lyme, so being bitten by one doesn’t automatically mean you’ve got the disease. According to the latest government data, on average around 2.5%-5.1% of ticks in England and ...
A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...