The Northeast has seen a rise in tick-related hospitalizations this summer, but CT health officials say they're prepared.

Within two minutes of stepping into woods near Connecticut’s southwestern shore last week, state scientist Goudarz Molaei was crawling with proof that this will be a bad year for ticks. Asian ...

Connecticut’s tick population is increasing this season, due to a variety of factors that include shorter and warmer winters and longer and wetter springs and summers, experts say. The state ...

Of the thousands of ticks collected across Connecticut last year, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station says blacklegged ticks- also known as deer ticks- were the most common. However ...

More than 2,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported each year in Connecticut. Tick-borne diseases have become more prevalent in recent years — that’s because the bugs prefer warmer weather, and ...

Here in Connecticut, there are three peak seasons for tick activity, according to Molaei. Adult black-legged ticks start to peak in late April into the month of May. Then juvenile ticks peak in ...

State agencies, health departments and local pest control agencies in Connecticut explored the challenges of tick and mosquito-borne diseases during a statewide symposium Tuesday.

NEW HAVEN — Connecticut's tick population is increasing this season, due to a variety of factors that include shorter and warmer winters and longer and wetter springs and summers, experts say. The ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s tick population is increasing this season, due to a variety of factors that include shorter and warmer winters and longer and wetter springs and summers ...