We often think of Lyme disease transmitting ticks as easily visible, half dime-sized bugs that burrow into our skin. But poppyseed-sized nymph ticks, or ticks in a younger stage of life, are ...

Fears over rising tick numbers and Lyme disease spread across Northeast - A beach in Connecticut is closed for the next year ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The risk of being bitten by a tick in New York City is currently extremely high, researchers at Fordham ...

What concerns Keesing is not the adult ticks, which die off in the spring, but the newly formed nymph ticks that acquired the Lyme disease pathogen when they feasted on mouse blood as larvae last ...

The height of the season for blacklegged tick nymphs is now. These adolescent ticks are tiny, ... 65 percent of the Lyme disease reports in Maine occur during this time of year.

But Thorne says it's possible to take steps to help prevent Lyme disease if you're meticulous. In the spring, tick nymphs — young versions that transmit most of the Lyme infections — are abundant.

Blacklegged ticks, the arachnids that carry Lyme disease, are out and about for more of the year thanks to warming temperatures across much of the country. Here's how to stay safe.

Experts say that most tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, typically occur between now and the end of August due to the active presence of nymph ticks. These tiny ticks, about the size of a ...

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne infection in the U.S., ... Tiny ticks at the nymph stage — about the size of a poppy seed — could be active early this year, ...

Though the majority of Lyme cases occur in the spring when people are bitten by deer ticks in their tiny nymph phase, that doesn’t mean you can’t pick up the disease at other times of the year ...

Ticks acquire the Lyme disease bacteria from feeding on "reservoir" animals. ... Most people catch Lyme disease from summer nymphs, which are tiny and easy to overlook, Stafford said.

Among the various tick species found in New England, the deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) is particularly notorious for carrying the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi ...