LAKE District walkers are being warned to take care to avoid tick bites this summer.

But there are some steps you can take to prevent them from taking over yours. Eric Day, manager of the insect identification lab at Virginia Tech, hunts for an earwig specimen in Tech’s Hahn Horticulture Garden.

Millions of children go off summer camps across the country during July and August, but it’s not always fun in the sun.

Westchester Medical Center Infectious disease specialists report an increase in the potentially severe tick-borne disease Babesiosis in New York’s Lower Hudson Valley over a ten year period Babesiosis, a rare and occasionally fatal tick-borne disease caused by microscopic parasites known as Babesia which infect red blood cells, is on the rise in …