Health officials and researchers hope that efforts to control deer populations, which serve as "party buses" for mating ticks, can reverse the tide of ticks and the illnesses they cause.

Ticks are small, and you might not notice when they bite, but the diseases they carry can dramatically harm your health. Each ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collage of screenshots from a viral video of ticks swarming a deer. A short video posted by Kip Adams, Chief Conservation ...

Changing deer populations, rising temperatures and other factors are driving ticks and their diseases into new areas.

Up-close tick encounters are nothing new to Peter Krause. As a tick-borne disease researcher, he’s conducted fieldwork where these parasites live. After one trip to Block Island, off the coast of ...

In the compact backyards of Staten Island, Maria Diuk-Wasser was surprised by what she saw. Ticks—and lots of them—nestled in wood piles, between leaves, and underneath bird feeders. It was more than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An adult deer tick at Connetquot State Park in Oakdale, New York, on December 27, 2011. (Courtesy of Bill Davis/Newsday via Getty ...

There is an increasing need for signs such the one seen here at the entrance to a trail at Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor, New York, warning of ticks. (Photo by James Carbone/Newsday RM via Getty ...