“Although deer ticks, the ticks that transmit Lyme disease in Pennsylvania, can be found in every county of the state, some areas are more conducive to higher tick populations,” O'Neill said ...

Moreover, roughly one-third of deer ticks in Maryland carry ... cases of Lyme disease in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Of the seven species of ticks that are more prominent in the United ...

Lyme disease is the most well-known, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, and is transmitted by black-legged ticks, ...

On Feb. 28, the lab issued a news release stating scientists had confirmed the tick was Ixodes scapularis, also known as the deer tick or blacklegged tick (not to be confused with the western ...