Ticks are small dangerous parasites that live in tall grass waiting for a host animal to walk by. These insects consume the ...

While most cases are caused by tick bites, less common ways of getting infected with babesiosis include getting a blood transfusion that has the parasite in it or a mother with the infection ...

These include the 5mm-long common red ant (Myrmica rubra or European fire ant) and the red wood ant (Formica rufa ... it's important to monitor the area for signs of infection because some ticks carry ...

Learn about the most common fall pests, their signs and effective removal tips to keep your home pest-free this season.

Mosquitoes, ticks, lice, kissing bugs and tsetse flies are all looking to grab a bite ... of you. See exactly how they do it and what you can do to stop them. Watch out … you might not always ...

Christine Longette never imagined tick bites would lead to a life-threatening ... Catherine Monteleone, an allergist at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.

It’s not just the bites that are worrisome; these ticks carry with them the silent threat of Lyme disease, an infection that spreads with little warning. Studies in Europe estimate that 1 to 5 ...

The prevalence of the disease, which is spread to people through the bite of a blacklegged tick, or a deer tick, has increased dramatically since the U.S. first began tracking the disease in 1991.

Lyme disease, transmitted by tick bites, is on the rise in much of the U.S., CDC data says. Fotolia TNS This story and visualization are part of our new “Data In Your Life” series, in which we ...