Despite strong efforts by public health officials to warn our citizens about the risks, tick-borne disease cases are rising ...

Wondering if you need to protect yourself from ticks in the winter? Learn how ticks survive cold weather, especially in the ...

Q: I have a nine-pound cat named Beauty and a five-pound Chihuahua named Beast. Is it OK for me to apply half of Beast's monthly flea and tick preventive to his skin and the other half to Beauty's ...

The life span of a deer tick is about two years and they develop through three stages: larva, nymph and adult. Their bite is painless and often is unnoticed, but they can carry Lyme disease. Photo ...

News of a New Jersey man’s death from alpha-gal syndrome made national headlines last month. Should Philly be worried? A creative dinner for two at Fork Sharon Forsyth, a Philadelphia native, was ...

Adult blacklegged ticks can be active throughout the winter whenever temperatures are above freezing and there is no snow cover. The rebound of forests and deer populations in Pennsylvania has created ...

A Town committee is stressing the need for more hunters to cull the deer population and reduce the number of ticks.(Credit: Jim Colligan ) If you think you only need to protect yourself from tick ...

It’s time again to remember to check for ticks while raking leaves. Ticks breed in the moist leaf piles overnight, and the mothers lay 2,000 eggs. Also, if you have an oak tree in your yard, it’s ...

MANLIUS, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — You might think tick season ends with summer, but data from the Upstate Tick Testing Lab tells a different story. October and November are the peak months of the year for ...

State health and agriculture officials have confirmed the first known case of the Asian longhorned tick in Kansas.The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) identified the tick after it ...