Symptoms of tick-borne illnesses are often non-specific, including fatigue, fever or a headache. That's why doctors say ...

It’s tick season, and national data shows more people are going to the emergency room for tick bites than they have in years.

Tick experts tell NBC Connecticut in the summer months, there needs to be hot, dry weather to increase tick mortality. Humidity this summer has been high at times, ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Inside a laboratory at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, experts are working diligently to detect tick species, like one sent in by someone in Westpor… ...

Connecticut’s tick population is increasing this season, due to a variety of factors that include shorter and warmer winters and longer and wetter springs and summers, experts say. The state ...

Health officials in Connecticut announced the state’s first two cases of Powassan virus detected in 2021. The cases, which stem from an infected tick bite, involved patients between 50-79 years ...

Health Connecticut reports its first case of tick-borne Powassan virus in 2022: What to know Using insect repellent, avoiding areas where ticks are likely, and checking carefully for ticks after ...

With the early warm weather, Connecticut is seeing an abundance of ticks and this year there are more types, carrying more diseases than ever. Already, Connecticut residents bitten by the tiny ...

The first-ever recorded Northeast case of a tick-borne disease was reported in Connecticut, officials said. Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis is a type of spotted fever transmitted through infected … ...

As outdoor activities begin to ramp up ahead of summer, Connecticut officials announced Tuesday that they confirmed the first U.S. case of the invasive longhorned tick carrying Ehrlichia chaffeensi… ...

A Connecticut woman died May 17 from Powassan virus infection due to a tick bite, ... Connecticut Resident Dies from Rare Tick-Borne Virus — the Second U.S. Fatality This Year.

Researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station are for the first time actively collecting ticks statewide to test for organisms that cause human diseases, including Lyme disease.