“Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is transmitted by the Black-legged tick,” said Dr. Martha Buchanan, director of the bureau of communicable disease prevention and control for the ...

Lyme-transmitting ticks, known as black-legged or deer ticks, were once largely balkanized to coastal New England. (The disease is named for a Connecticut town where researchers in the 1970s first ...

Tick bites are on the rise. Here’s how to protect yourself. Longer summers and shorter winters in North America mean more warm days throughout the year. These conditions are also creating longer ...

“By using images and training, this neural network, it would figure out, ‘oh, this is a black-legged tick, or this is a Lone Star tick,'” said Kolb. “For something that just started as ...