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Knowing how to recognize and safely treat tick bites can help reduce your risk of developing tick-borne infectious diseases, such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Lyme disease is an infection that is spread to humans through the bites of ticks carrying specific bacteria.

How Lyme disease mounts a stealthy, silent attack on the unsuspecting

Thanks to migrating birds and deer vasectomies, new tick species are settling in New York City, as some experts prepare for the worst.

Two decades after a vaccine was withdrawn, scientists are producing medicines to prevent a disease that afflicts nearly half a million people each year.

The final clinical trial of a new vaccine against Lyme disease created by Pfizer is calling for 6,000 volunteers in Europe and the US.

Researchers are seeking thousands of volunteers in the U.S. and Europe to test the first potential vaccine against Lyme disease in 20 years – in hopes of better fighting the tick-borne threat.Lyme is a growing problem, with cases rising and warming...

If approved, it would be the first new shot to combat the misunderstood disease in the U.S. in 20 years

Lyme is a growing problem, with cases rising and warming weather helping ticks expand their habitat.

DUNCANSVILLE - Researchers are seeking thousands of volunteers in the U.S. and Europe to test the first potential vaccine against Lyme disease in 20 years -- in hopes of better fighting the tick-borne...