The CDC estimates that around 476,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease each year. This potentially serious disease is spread through the bite of an infected deer tick, ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, together with international colleagues, have identified a protein on the surface of cells that is crucial to allowing the tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus to ...

It might not reflect well on us that a spider as aptly named as the brown recluse is so misunderstood. While many people know the truth about the brown recluse — that it is not aggressive, but a “shy, ...

You spent some time outside, and then discovered a bug on your leg. What is it? And should you be concerned? It's estimated that more than 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease develop in the United ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WSIL) -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is urging residents to take precautions against tick bites after a state resident contracted Powassan, a tick-borne illness ...

What's worse than an ant bite? A fire ant bite. Fire ants, as their name might suggest, are reddish insects with stingers and venom pouches that they may use to attack areas of exposed skin, according ...

A shouting match broke out during a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday after far-left “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) described President Trump’s Washington, DC, crime crackdown as a ...

Arya, a six-year-old border collie in Italy, can learn a new toy’s name from just one or two mentions. Her owners say she even knows her favorite foods’ names; when pizza is on the menu, the word has ...

The dogs arrived in "heartbreaking conditions," said Keira Caessens from Albion's code enforcement office. All of the dogs were covered in fleas, matted fur and hair and feces. Most had rotting teeth, ...