The research initiative comes amid a growing risk of outbreaks of diseases that spread from animals to humans. Read more at ...

the dog tick (American or brown), or the lone star tick. Ticks are known carriers of disease-causing pathogens, but knowing ...

"We live in a residential neighborhood, and you can walk up the side of the street and our dogs come home with ticks on them, ...

Soon, we will no longer be seeing wood ticks (also called American dog ticks). It wasn’t that long ago when you couldn’t go outdoors, especially around grassy, weedy areas without attracting a horde ...

An NUS-based study says 11 species that have bitten humans here can carry 1 or more harmful microbes. Read more at ...

A team of biomolecular engineers, pathologists, and internal medicine specialists at the University of Texas Medical Branch, ...

With snow, ice, and freezing temperatures, you may think ticks would be gone, but that is not the case.Now 9 dogs in Fulton ...

Many dog flea medicines require a prescription ... NexGard is a better choice for preventing the transmission of Lyme disease from ticks. Some veterinarians also use NexGard to treat mange.

Tick bites can cause common and potentially life-threatening diseases such as ... better than the cure when it comes to safeguarding a dog’s health. Fleas can be directly responsible for ...

A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...