Tag: Ticks
La Crosse virus is the second-most common virus in the US...
Rebecca Trout Fryxell, University of Tennessee
For the Laudick family of Greensburg, Indiana, life forever changed on Aug. 5,...
Tick bites: Every year is a bad tick year
Jory Brinkerhoff, University of Richmond
It’s summer, a time to hike, garden, vacation – and to be on the...
Lyme disease symptoms could be mistaken for COVID-19, with serious consequences
Jory Brinkerhoff, University of Richmond
Summer is field season for ecologists like me, a time when my colleagues, students and I go out into fields...
A tick detective wants to understand what drives tick abundance
David Allen, Middlebury
The Abstract features interesting research and the people behind it.
David Allen is an assistant professor in biology at Middlebury College who studies...
No, Lyme disease is not an escaped military bioweapon, despite what...
Sam Telford, Tufts University
Could Lyme disease in the U.S. be the result of an accidental release from a secret bioweapons experiment? Could the military...
Ticks spread plenty more for you to worry about beyond Lyme...
Jerome Goddard, Mississippi State University
When it comes to problems caused by ticks, Lyme disease hogs a lot of the limelight. But various tick species...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
