The space agency collects what it calls the planetary 'vital signs' that are key for global public health research. Potential cuts could threaten that work.

The only current prevention for Lyme disease is covering up and wearing insect repellant to prevent tick bites. A new vaccine could change that.

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UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing hand, foot and mouth and viral upper respiratory infections this week.

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Health departments struggle to adequately survey for ticks to warn doctors about new species and the diseases they carry.

Armstrong, PhD, an assistant professor in the Herbold Computational Biology Program in Fred Hutch’s Public Health Sciences ...

Quebec has reported its first case of the potentially deadly tick-borne disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The disease has ...

More and more 'Frankenstein' rabbits are appearing across the US. Now an expert has warned where the disease may spread next ...