Climate change may be helping longhorned ticks spread Ehrlichiosis across the U.S. more effectively. The infection ...

The invasive longhorned tick species is posing new health risks as scientists warn that it could potentially lead to an ...

Public health agencies are urging people to take precautions when spending time outdoors, such as using insect repellent and ...

Ehrlichiosis is an infectious disease caused by a type of round bacteria that have the propensity to invade and infect the white blood cells (leukocytes). There are two primary types of white ...

Normal ehrlichiosis symptoms usually begin five to 14 days after a tick bite, Dr. Sanjeev Swami, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics and pediatric infectious disease specialist at Children ...

New research from the University of Missouri is laying the groundwork for possible drugs to treat the tickborne disease ...

In 2022, there were 1,570 reported cases of ehrlichiosis compared to 201 cases in 2000, when the disease first became nationally tracked. But this most recent case is even rarer than usual.

A new bacteria -- called ehrlichia species Wisconsin -- causes the tick-borne illness ehrlichiosis. Symptoms include fever, headache and body aches. Like Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis is treated with ...

Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) is a tick-borne illness caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis. The distribution of this rickettsial disease parallels that of its major tick vectors, the Lone Star ...

So with that increase of the lone star tick population, you would expect to see an increase of ehrlichiosis." Scott Campbell, Suffolk County’s chief entomologist, on Wednesday.

Ehrlichiosis represents a group of infections that are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria from the bacterial family Anaplasmataceae (chiefly belonging to the genus Ehrlichia and Anaplasma ...