Despite decades of public health messaging about Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, cases continue to rise, ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

Experts have warned that the warming climate has allowed tick populations to expand, causing an increase in tick-borne ...

The field of zoonotic infectious diseases, particularly those involving tick-borne pathogens, has taken center stage in global health due to the rapid ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

The real revelation, however, came from the men. Men considered a larger penis as an indicator of a rival with both greater ...

A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

In Western New York, deer season is over, the venison is processed and stored, deer camps are quiet, and many hunters turn ...

Mites and ticks are often mistaken for insects. Actually, they belong to the broader category of ‘arachnids’, creatures with two body segments and eight legs. They range from invisible dust mites in ...

Researchers say they believe they've documented the first known death from alpha-gal syndrome — a red meat allergy caused by tick bites. The findings, by researchers at the University of Virginia ...