Both humans and dogs can get Lyme disease through infection of the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. The infection spreads through deer tick bites, known as Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus.

Ticks pose a grave risk to public health, with nearly half a million cases of the tick-borne Lyme disease treated every year ...

Learn about an unlikely strategy for repelling ticks that involves a compound secreted by the skin of donkeys, which may help ...

O'Callaghan; Louise Trudel; R. Alex Thompson In this study, therefore, we aimed to develop risk maps for the occurrence of the Lyme disease vector I. scapularis in Canada under current climate ...

BILLINGS – A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease ... confirmed the tick was Ixodes scapularis, also known ...

Lyme disease has expanded its geographical footprint significantly, with cases now reported in all 50 states. The black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis) and western black-legged tick (Ixodes ...

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have made a promising discovery that could lead to the development of a ...

Among the various tick species found in New England, the deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) is particularly notorious for carrying the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi).

It’s in those days of quiet blood-thirst that ticks pass along bacteria that causes conditions like Lyme ... disease, a growing problem driven in the U.S. by black-legged ticks (or Ixodes ...

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have made a promising discovery that could lead to the development of a ...

Alex Thompson Clearly, the further we project into the future the distributions of I. scapularis populations, the less certain we are of them because of uncertainties in emissions scenarios ...