The mother of two children infected with relapsing fever said Wednesday she believes the source of the disease was ticks in a bird's nest on the porch of a cabin on Flathead Lake's Wildhorse Island, ...

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

In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University and other institutions have identified genetic material from the recently identified Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus in the tick species Hyalomma ...

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 ...

Regarding “Bird feeders help spread disease” (Longer View, Dec. 29): The letter about bird feeders helping to spread Lyme disease is certainly something to consider. I'm a bird feeder who has been ...

A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease — the most common disease spread by ticks in the United States, estimated at about ...