On the west coast lives their closest cousin, the western black-legged tick. They are highly present in regions where ...

At the same time, white-tailed deer, an essential species for ticks’ survival, are proliferating here. Tick-borne disease is already a massive public health challenge in the Northeast ...

Lyme disease is still the state’s most common reported tick-borne disease, but two other diseases – human anaplasmosis and babesiosis – can result from deer tick bites in ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Another white deer has been spotted in the Piedmont Triad! Just after two wild white deer stole the show at the North Carolina Zoo recently, Amanda Levesque shared with ...

With summer in full swing, ticks and mosquitoes are out in Borderland. A record number of tick-born illnesses were reported to the Minnesota Department of Health last year. Health officials are ...

the tick can get the bacteria that causes Lyme disease and then potentially spread it to humans through its bite. Other animals, like white-tailed deer, are “incompetent hosts”, so while they are a ...

Two indigenous white “ezoshika” deer, considered a “messenger of God,” were seen separately grazing in snow-covered fields in the Sarobetsu plain in northern Hokkaido on Feb. 13.

Other animals, like white-tailed deer, are "incompetent hosts," so while they are a food source for blacklegged ticks, they do not transmit the Lyme disease bacteria. Blacklegged ticks typically ...