The new finding indicates a looming problem for cattle health in the Midwest. Worldwide, the Longhorned tick costs livestock farmers millions of dollars in lost agricultural income,…
Diagnoses increased 65% in urban areas. Over the last 15 years, Lyme disease has seen a noticeable increase in the United States, and as a…
The structure of many important molecules involved in anaphylaxis to mammalian meat has been uncovered, opening the door to potential future treatments. The genetic and…
New study presented at TropMed20 shows how climate change could expand and intensify the risk of disease that kills one in five if not treated…
Raking leaves out to the yard edge may increase tick numbers there. If you cleared fallen leaves from your lawn last fall, did you deposit…
In a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, Jorge Benach and Rafal Tokarz, and their co-authors at Stony Brook…
Human cases of Borrelia miyamotoi, a tick-borne infection with some similarities to Lyme disease, were discovered in the eastern United States less than a decade…
Yale researchers have developed a new therapy that cures the emerging infectious disease, babesiosis, which is transmitted by the same ticks that transmit the agents…
Similar to Lyme disease, a new tick-borne infection known as Borrelia miyamotoi has been discovered in people in the United States. A new tick-borne infection…
Haemaphysalis flava, a kind of tick, was observed under the intense rays of an electron scanning microscope and survived the experience. They may have just…
Durand Fish, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, discusses ticks and the associated health…
