Working in the emergency room at Children's Hospital Pittsburgh earlier this month, some very worried parents had brought in their a 6-year-old son—where they had removed a tick from his left groin 10 … read more

By the end of March, we all just need the spring. We welcome the extra hours of daylight and milder temperatures with open arms. Unfortunately, ticks really love springtime weather too, and they’ve al … read more

Currently, more than 25 tick species have been identified in Pennsylvania; but of these, four species of ticks account for nearly 90 percent of all submissions to be identified by doctors. The four co … read more

Lyme Disease alone has tripled in the United States over the last two decades making this tick-borne disease the leading vector-borne disease reported in the Northern Hemisphere. The number of re … read more

In a recent study on ticks published in the journal PLoS One, it has been determined that ticks will survive better under environmentally-realistic conditions in southern environments due to the warme … read more