Kuchyt said VCA research shows it can take as little as four to six hours after a tick attaches to transmit Lyme disease. She said some products can shorten the time it takes to kill ticks and reduce ...

Dr. Sarah Khan, associate medical director for infection, prevention and control with Hamilton Health Sciences, says it’s possible to coexist with ticks.

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It's the start of tick season in Massachusetts. Experts say, many of them are on the move right now, and looking for their first meal.

The state logged a record 4,257 Lyme disease cases in 2025, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

After that second meal, the tick molts again and becomes an adult. Adult ticks are most active in the fall and again in early ...

Holly Ahern, of Ballston Lake, New York, is a professor emerita of microbiology, a researcher working on improved diagnostic tests for Lyme disease, a member of state and federally convened working ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A bite from the lone star tick produces a “bull’s-eye rash” indistinguishable from Lyme disease. The tick is ...

Maryland has one of the highest Lyme disease rates in the nation. However, federal funding lapses, cancellations and delays have left research at local institutions in limbo, including Johns Hopkins ...

Lyme disease, named after the Connecticut town where clusters of children developed a then-mysterious disease in the 1970s, has quietly become one of the Northern Hemisphere’s most stubborn ...

Amid amid growing concern about Lyme disease in New England and beyond, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week the Trump administration plans to launch an aggressive ...

Heath Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised a renewed focus on the “diagnostic efforts” for tick-borne Lyme disease, describing it on Dec. 15 as an “invisible” illness that he claims has been ...