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

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

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/ Rickettsia (RMSF) Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/Rickettsia (RMSF) is most often transmitted by the American dog tick in the Eastern, Central and Western United States; by ...

"It's a matter of whether medically he's absolutely got the final tick off and we're not putting him at undue risk. "Once I get that final tick off, we're prepared to pick him." Wood has not played a ...