The agency says the bites are sending Americans to the emergency room (ER) at the highest rate in nearly 10 years. During the second week of April, 71 out of every 100,000 emergency room visits were ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — According to the CDC, 31 million people in the United States are bitten by a tick every year. In 2026, the CDC reported that tick bites are higher than normal in many parts of the ...

Shyloh Favreau is known as the tick person among his friends. And in the last couple of weeks, the calls have started coming in. “It can be a really stressful moment when you realize you've been ...

A blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick, which is a carrier of Lyme disease. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP Invasive plants, new housing development ...

Emergency room visits for tick bites are unusually high across much of the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reaching levels that haven't been seen in years. Recent ...

Tick bites are sending Americans to the emergency room at the highest rate in nearly a decade, according to new CDC data. During the second week of April, 71 out of every 100,000 emergency room visits ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tick bites are sending people to the ED at a higher rates this spring than any year since 2017. An ID expert ...

It seems we’re not the only ones loving this warmer weather — ticks are back in full force. Emergency room visits for tick bites are at their highest rate in nearly a decade, according to the Centers ...

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in the United States. There is no vaccine to protect against it in humans. Biopharmaceutical company Pfizer and Valneva, a European ...

With warmer weather and more sunshine comes more outdoor activities like hiking, trail running, camping, and family picnics. However, the biggest downside of this season is the ticks; this year’s tick ...

A warmer-than-average winter has given the disease-riddled insects a change to breed in record numbers — and they're "booming right now," health officials say getty Emergency room visits for tick ...

Health officials urge Michiganders to take precautions to prevent tick bites as the blood-sucking arachnids spread to more heavily populated areas of the state. The number of Lyme disease cases in ...