Two Emerging Infectious Diseases studies link bites from black-legged (deer) and western black-legged ticks to potentially ...

Products such as K9 Advantix® II are recommended and trusted by veterinarians to prevent tick bites that can cause Lyme ...

BILLINGS — A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme ...

Montana has long been home to the Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis). Deer ticks ... is to prevent tick bites.

The deer tick is the size of a poppy seed. After a feeding, it can triple in size. Sometimes, it can pass on Lyme disease. Most wood tick bites are harmless. The spread of disease by wood ticks is not ...

Deer ticks are extremely small ... Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: This disease is carried by a bacterium and can be transmitted by the bites of dog or wood ticks. Contrary to what the name of the ...

The Rocky Mountain wood tick is almost indistinguishable from the ... Western black-legged ticks are very similar to eastern black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks. Only female black-legged ...

Known for its nasty bite, the black-legged (deer) tick gets its name from the color of its ... these ticks cover the whole eastern coastline of the United States. The American dog tick, also called ...

A tick bite is generally painless ... Babesiosis and Lyme Disease. Adult American dog (wood) ticks (bottom row) and blacklegged (deer) ticks (top row). Photos reproduced with the permission of Robbin ...

The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into ...

In alpha-gal syndrome, the immune system overreacts to a sugar known as galactose-α-1,3-galactose, or "alpha-gal" for short.