tick-born disease

Warmer weather is thought to be behind the rise in vector-borne illnesses in recent years.

This lone star tick’s bite can cause an allergy to red meat.

Borrelia burgdorferi move around the body by clinging to the inside of blood vessels with “catch bonds.”

Bourbon virus may have killed a previously healthy man in Kansas last year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

Willy Burgdorfer, the medical entomologist who first found the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, has passed away at age 89.

Researchers identify six new cases of the tick-borne Heartland virus in Missouri and Tennessee.

A new tick-borne disease has emerged in the US Midwest—and the culprit is not a bacterium. 

Researchers find zero evidence for Lyme-induced autism.