Samantha Ballas is a fourth-year medical student at SUNY Upstate Medical University Norton College of Medicine, in Syracuse. She is applying for a neurology residency. While modern medicine has come a ...

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These tick-borne illnesses present with flu-like symptoms and can lead to severe complications if left untreated. Health officials recommend performing full-body checks for ticks after being in wooded ...

The risk for being bitten by a tick infected with bacteria that cause Lyme disease is as high in Ohio as it is for those living in Northeast states that have dealt with Lyme disease for over 50 years, ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (WHDH) - Tiny insects are spreading a devastating disease. Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believe they’ve discovered something that could help stop Lyme ...

Congress tasked a government watchdog with researching whether the Defense Department weaponized ticks with Lyme disease as part of a Cold War-era bioweapons program, in hopes that finding an origin ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island native Nicole O’Donnell, 51, came down with flu-like symptoms one weekend in 2015. Instead of improving, her symptoms worsened, including numbness, tingling and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A bite from the lone star tick produces a “bull’s-eye rash” indistinguishable from Lyme disease. The tick is ...

Maryland has one of the highest Lyme disease rates in the nation. However, federal funding lapses, cancellations and delays have left research at local institutions in limbo, including Johns Hopkins ...

Lyme disease, named after the Connecticut town where clusters of children developed a then-mysterious disease in the 1970s, has quietly become one of the Northern Hemisphere’s most stubborn ...

Maryland has some of the highest cases of Lyme disease in the nation, yet funding for research is in jeopardy. Lyme disease is the most common and fastest-growing vector-borne disease in the United ...

A federal investigation will examine if the U.S. military weaponized ticks with Lyme disease during the Cold War. The investigation was prompted by an amendment from U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., ...