Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spring has officially sprung in central Ohio, which means outdoor activities will soon start ramping up. Unfortunately, outside is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ticks are back in season, and Ohio has more of them than ever before. While these blood-sucking insects don't deliver painful ...

Spring has officially sprung in Central Ohio, which means outdoor activities will soon start ramping up. Unfortunately, outside is where ticks lie in wait. The little arachnids crawl to the top of ...

Ticks and the diseases they carry are growing. Ohio has had a 35-fold increase in Lyme disease in the past 13 years. There are also potentially large impacts to our No. 1 industry in Ohio, which is ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A parasite that can transmit Lyme disease to humans and pets is currently in the midst of its most active season in Ohio. Ticks, parasites that feed on the blood of humans and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio is one of the most “tick-infested” states in the country, according to a recent report by the pest control company Terminix. As tick activity has been reaching “alarming ...

It is officially tick season. Although active year-round — even in the winter — this is the time of year when most tick encounters happen. There are now five types of ticks found in Ohio. The four ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio’s recent outbreak of highly contagious measles — which caused 34 recorded cases in the state this year — is over, Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff said ...

Haemaphysalis longicornis, the Asian longhorned tick, has been documented in 24 Ohio counties. The USDA has confirmed a tick removed from a dog in Butler County is of the invasive Asian longhorned ...

There have been 31 confirmed and 47 suspected cases of Lyme disease in Coshocton as of June 30 with 749 cases in Ohio. The blacklegged, or deer, tick gained a foothold in Ohio in 2010 and cases have ...

At a more micro level, the top five tick-infested cities in the U.S., in descending order, are New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., according to the report.