There are around 850 tick species in the world and about 90 of them live in the U.S. To stay safe, here is what to know about ticks, and their bites. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

But when they looked at the man’s blood under a microscope and analyzed the bacteria’s genetics, ... B. lonestari would be the second TBRF germ known to be spread by hard ticks.

Hard tick relapsing fever, a disease caused by tick-borne bacteria, may cause symptoms similar to Lyme disease, but without the rash. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

The Northeast has been hit particularly hard, with tick bites accounting for 283 ER visits per 100,000 during the peak month of May, up from 209 around the same time in 2024.

Because the unique chemistry of tick saliva might be relevant for spreading Powassan, it’s important that scientists study the virus in living ticks. But doing this safely is difficult.

A protein found in cells of the hard tick Amblyomma sculptum, the main vector of the bacterium that causes Brazilian spotted fever (also known as Rocky Mountain spotted fever), is essential to the ...

There are many reasons bears shimmy and scratch against trees. Sometimes they communicate by scent-marking trees, other times they’re removing hair and scratching that hard-to-reach itch. A new ...