You don’t have to be out in the woods either. Walking your dog along the road can make you a mark for a hungry deer tick.

Ticks travel light, but they carry pathogens with them. When they parasitize migrating birds, these journeys can take them thousands of miles away from their usual geographic range. Historically, they ...

Ticks could spread new diseases around the world by hitching a lift on migrating birds, warns new research. The parasitic ...