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Getting outside in Montana is a favorite pastime for most residents. It's also where you will encounter ticks. Here are what ones to be on the lookout for.

Ongoing research into the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in whitetail deer has identified a tiny new piece of the puzzle: ticks. University scientists from Wisconsin and Minnesota discovered single deer ticks (a.k.a. blacklegged ticks) in the wild, taken off the heads of CWD-infected deer, with enough disease-causing prions inside of them to spread the disease. Hypothetically, a ...

It turns out that Massachusetts has not two, but eight kinds of ticks. A bunch of them are brown like the dog tick — and that one even has two

A Maine resident died from Powassan virus, a rare tick-borne disease, the state's Center for Disease Control and Prevention said May 17. 

ALEXANDRIA — I was able to hear Elizabeth Schiffman, epidemiologist supervisor for the Minnesota Department of Health Vector Borne Disease Unit, speak this past week.