Ellen Stromdahl was at a garden party in coastal Virginia in June 2023 when her friend Albert Duncan stood up from where he was sitting and abruptly fainted. Duncan is an outdoorsman in his mid-80s — ...

Ticks can transmit diseases like Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Babesiosis and Alpha-gal. Use insect repellent, tuck pants into socks, and check clothing and body for ticks after being ...

VIRGINIA, USA — A new study says cases of a tick-borne disease are increasing in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, including in Virginia. The CDC says babesiosis is a disease that infects ...

The lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) is about 5 mm in length or less, light reddish-brown with a central white spot on the back of most of the adults. The brown tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus) is ...

Lone Star tick A female Lone Star tick, so called because of the characteristic white spot on its back. These ticks are thought to transmit a Lyme diseaselike sickness called Southern tick associated ...