TickBorne

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A close friend was diagnosed recently with Lyme disease due to a tick bite. However, I recently read about some new type of tick-borne illness. My family loves to hike and be outdoors, but I'm nervous now about…

The most efficient strategy is to use tick-preventive medications, which your veterinarian can prescribe.Learn about the symptoms and prevention measures for some common tick-borne diseases that can afflict your pooch, and be proactive in…

Ticks are spider-like tiny parasites with eight legs and egg-shaped body that may become slightly enlarged and dark when filled with blood. They attack themselves to animals and people, feed on their blood and transmit diseases directly…

Depending on whether the affected person's immune system is activated or not, the dreaded tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus infects different types of brain cells in different parts of the brain. This is demonstrated in a new study from…

A rare and life-threatening disease called babesiosis is slowly spreading in Canada with the help of an eight-legged, blood-sucking arachnid — the blacklegged tick. The blacklegged ticks, also known as deer ticks, can transmit…

Experts are sounding the alarm over a malaria-like tick-borne disease that kills up to 20 percent of people it infects.Human cases of babesiosis have more than doubled in a decade in the US, a trend some say is linked to climate change and…

Hotspots for a rare tick-borne disease that kills up to one in ten sufferers have been revealed for the first time.A study by the Yale School of Public Health found that Powassan virus, dubbed 'Lyme disease's deadly cousin', is being…

Brits may need yet another vaccine as a new and dangerous tick-borne virus could spread as the country gets warmer, an expert has warned. Three cases of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) have been confirmed by the UK Health Security…

Topline Moderna on Tuesday unveiled plans to develop vaccines against tick-borne Lyme disease and norovirus, a notorious stomach bug, the Massachusetts-based biotech’s latest efforts to bolster its pipeline and expand its offerings ahead of…

Prime tick season is approaching, and those creepy little arachnids are carrying all sorts of diseases, including a rare one that’s becoming more prominent: Annual reported cases of babesiosis—a tick-borne disease that can trigger flu-like…