Ticks are one of the unwelcome accompaniments of spring and warming weather. As with other blood-seeking insects, when they make their withdrawals they can leave very undesirable gifts - any of a variety of infectious diseases.

As humans spread over the globe from about 50 000 years ago, megafauna such as mammoths, giant kangaroos and many others vanished.

A Corning woman is a living example of the dangers of Lyme Disease. Elisabeth Heininger has been fighting Lyme’s Disease just about her entire life, but doctors didn’t know that was the problem until 2004.

Spring is finally here, and with it comes tick season. Agricultural Research Service scientists are reporting the latest in a series of related studies on the effectiveness of an ARS technology that reduces tick populations.