Sen. Michael Bennet (D., Colo.) asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to clarify whether he had said previously that Lyme disease was a bioweapon. “I did probably say that,” RFK Jr. responded. The idea that ...

A bug bite that looks like a bruise can come from ... notify a healthcare provider if you have a bite from a deer tick that ...

Disease-carrying ticks appear to be on the rise in Minnesota, and spreading to parts of the state that didn’t have the bugs as recently as five years ago, state ...

MMCD staff work throughout the season to gather information about Lyme disease and deer tick activity. As part of a long-term study, MMCD is in the field trapping and collecting small rodents ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick -- also called a deer tick -- is a risk during spring, summer, and fall. A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and ...

Most people lump all arthropods, or animals with an exoskeleton, together as "bugs". But there are ... They have 6 legs and antennae. Ticks are parasites of vertebrates, or animals with backbones, ...