Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst say a naturally occurring compound secreted by the skin of donkeys can ...

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in the United States. There is no vaccine to protect against it in humans. Biopharmaceutical company Pfizer and Valne ...

Before your next hike or picnic, make sure you know how to protect your family and pets.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 13—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Four University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown professors have won $115,000 to develop a product that would ...

One of the easiest ways to reduce ticks is to maintain your yard and its perimeter. About 82 percent of ticks found on lawns are discovered within nine feet of the lawn’s edge. This is especially true ...

Every year, Sam Telford is asked the same question. "How bad will this year's tick season be?" Telford, a professor of infectious diseases and global health at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine ...

If you’ve spent more than half a minute in the woods in warmer weather, you are well aware that ticks suck. These multi-legged parasitic arachnids literally suck the blood of their chosen hosts, ...

As the weather gets warmer, ticks will become more prevalent across Wisconsin, putting both people and their pets at risk.

It’s an unfortunate reality each spring that just as outdoor activities pick up for humans, tick activity picks up, too. In an effort to reduce the spread of tick-borne illnesses such as Lyme disease, ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst say a naturally occurring compound secreted by the skin of donkeys can effectively repel the most common human-biting tick. In fact, they assert ...

As outdoor lovers, we tend to embrace the idea that time in nature is good for us, but one threat that's become harder to ignore: the growing presence of ticks and the serious diseases they can ...