Thanks to warming winters and milder temperatures, ticks are thriving in more parts of the country than ever before — bringing the risk of tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease.

The City of Toronto conducts its own blacklegged tick surveillance program known as "tick dragging" in the fall of each year.

An early-May spike in tick bites in New York and the Northeast triggered public health alarms about tickborne illnesses. What ...

With the incidence of Lyme disease growing in Ontario, Lambton Public Health is keeping watch for its carrier, the blacklegged tick. With the incidence of Lyme disease growing in Ontario, Lambton ...

Blacklegged ticks, also known as deer ticks, spread a bacteria that can cause Lyme Disease in animals and people. They've ...

As Lyme disease cases continue to rise across Canada, researchers at the G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab at the ...

Ontario is experiencing an increase in ticks, and one local resident is raising awareness in hopes of sparking change.

The unemployment rate ticked up to 6.9 per cent in April as the manufacturing sector started to strain under the weight of ...

According to Health Canada, mosquitoes are common from May to September. Mosquitoes can bite at any time of the day, but they ...

Toronto, Ontario, May 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE ... helping to drive progress in the fight against tick-borne diseases. “There is a complexity to Lyme disease,” says Dr. Melanie Wills ...

THUNDER BAY — The past several years have seen new invasive species spread into the Thunder Bay area as well as a notable ...