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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 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 ...

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 ...

Capturing, examining and analyzing tens of thousands of migratory songbirds, our local bird-banding research team currently based at the Auburn Sportsman’s Club has been at the forefront of efforts to ...

The red-billed oxpecker, called “Askari wa kifaru” or the rhino's guard in Swahili, alerts black rhinos to nearby humans and may have developed the behavior to protect food sources existing on rhinos’ ...

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