Tick-borne diseases are spreading into new parts of the United States at a pace that has caught public health officials off guard. Babesiosis, a potentially fatal parasitic infection once confined to ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Lyme disease is no longer a problem happening somewhere else. Health experts say cases in Ohio have exploded, and the risk is real even here in the Miami Valley. As Sam Sofio ...

Public health specialists are warning that a dangerous disease threat is accelerating in one of the most climate‑stressed parts of the United States, where warming temperatures, shifting ecosystems ...

Ticks have evolved different techniques to survive winter. They stay deep down in the leaf litter close to the forest floor to limit exposure to the cold air. Snow may actually help them by adding ...