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

In the fall of 2023, a tick was found on a bird dog after a hunting trip near Richey in Dawson County, eastern Montana. While ...

To curb the spread of Lyme disease in the northeastern United States, scientists and public health experts for decades have ...

Scientists at Montana State University’s Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology are working to develop a better vaccination for Lyme disease.

The type of tick most commonly known to carry the bacterium that causes Lyme disease has been identified in eastern Montana, according to new National Institutes of Health (NIH) research. […] ...

After another year of record-breaking Lyme disease case reports, Mainers may be hoping a colder, drier winter is putting a dent in tick populations. Warm, wet winters help disease-carrying ticks ...

A female deer tick (xodes scapularis), one of the two tick species that spread ehrlichiosis in the U.S. © KPixMining via Shutterstock A person’s precious organ ...

There’s an epidemic of tick-transmitted Lyme disease, with some estimates putting the number of people diagnosed and treated in the U.S. at 476,000 people a year, according to the Centers for ...

A deer has to avoid a lot of threats to its life to get old in the wild like this buck has. Patricia Neal / Maryland Department of Natural Resources The oldest wild whitetail ever documented lived to ...

Reindeer (also known as caribou) are a member of the deer family, native to the tundra, boreal forests, and mountains of the extreme frigid north. In human culture, they are a staple of northern ...

Beyond beating you to your upcoming harvest, deer foraging in your yard poses a health risk to you and your loved ones. Deer ticks can transmit Lyme disease and other potentially dangerous diseases, ...

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