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

It’s tick season, and national data shows more people are going to the emergency room for tick bites than they have in years.

It’s spring — and warmer weather brings ticks. Tick-borne illnesses in Connecticut have been on the rise in recent years, according to scientists at the state’s Agricultural Experiment Station.

Warmer spring weather translates to the start of tick season in Connecticut, and this year state scientists will be starting a new program to trap and monitor ticks in all eight Connecticut ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Inside a laboratory at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, experts are working diligently to detect tick species, like one sent in by someone in Westpor… ...

The first-ever recorded Northeast case of a tick-borne disease was reported in Connecticut, officials said. Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis is a type of spotted fever transmitted through infected … ...

With the early warm weather, Connecticut is seeing an abundance of ticks and this year there are more types, carrying more diseases than ever. Already, Connecticut residents bitten by the tiny ...

The first human case of a rare tick-borne illness has been reported in Connecticut. The case also marks the first time Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis has appeared in the northeast, according to ...

As outdoor activities begin to ramp up ahead of summer, Connecticut officials announced Tuesday that they confirmed the first U.S. case of the invasive longhorned tick carrying Ehrlichia chaffeensi… ...

Jamie L Cantoni, agricultural research technician and field technician, drags along a white cloth to catch ticks in Lyme, Connecticut, on April 16, 2025. In 1975, a cluster of children in Lyme ...

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 ...