That’s not a mole, that’s a tick! Tick bites tend to happen when it’s least expected. It’s important to know that some tick bites can cause an illness called Lyme disease. In the U.S., bites from infected blacklegged deer ticks are the most common type of tick bite to cause […]
This may be one of the last few summers that people will need to mostly depend on doing tick checks as the best defense against getting Lyme disease. Multiple drugmakers are developing vaccines that could help people avoid the many troubling symptoms of the tick-borne illness. Earlier this month, Moderna […]
Erol Fikrig had spent 10 years pursuing a vaccine that would take a new approach to protecting people from Lyme disease, a growing bane in the United States: He wanted to target not the pathogen, but the tick that transmits it. Then, at a June 2019 meeting in Killarney, Ireland, […]
