A rare but dangerous tick-borne virus is on the rise across the U.S. The Powassan virus is spread mainly by the deer tick, the same one that carries Lyme disease. However, unlike with Lyme disease in ...

When Westin Nelson of Skagway became the first Alaska hunter on record to harvest a mule deer, he may have been doing the ...

Tick season has begun in Connecticut, and state scientists are warning that native black-legged (deer) ticks are testing positive for Lyme disease at higher rates than in previous years. That's ...