The wood tick (dog tick) is the size of an apple seed. After feeding, it can double or triple in size. Sometimes, it can pass on Rocky Mountain spotted fever or Colorado tick fever. The deer tick is ...

Females have tan scuta, but they do carry the Colorado tick fever virus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, among other illnesses. They’re most common in grasslands and shrublands and along the edges of ...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a relatively rare bacterial disease spread through bites from infected ticks. The infection itself is caused by the Rickettsia rickettsii parasite. Rocky Mountain ...

The deaths in February of legendary Hollywood actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa in their home in New Mexico have ...

PRODUCERS are on high alert following the confirmation of tick fever on two North Coast cattle properties. North Coast Local Land Services (LLS) district veterinarian Phillip Carter, said the cattle ...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a bacterial infection spread by biting ticks to humans and dogs. Found on every continent except Antarctica, the infectious disease has been spreading since the ...

A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease – the ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health recommends people contact their doctor if they're bitten by a tick and develop a rash and other symptoms like a fever, headache or sore muscles.

(Oscar Zazueta, Harvard) Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a bacterial infection spread by biting ticks to humans and dogs. Found on every continent except Antarctica, the infectious disease has been ...

The type of tick that causes southern tick-associated rash illness is the lone star tick. These ticks are most common in the southern United States, where Lyme disease is rare. Rocky Mountain spotted ...