Ehrlichia in dogs is a bacterial disease that causes fever, bleeding, poor appetite, and lethargy. It's a disease dogs get from ticks. Though this disease happens everywhere, it is more common in ...

An invasive tick species is creeping its way into more parts of the country as warming temperatures help it spread a little-known infection that can leave people with debilitating symptoms and, in ...

Researchers in Minnesota have discovered a new bacterium carried by deer ticks that has caused flu-like symptoms in at least 25 people in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The bacterium, which is yet unnamed, ...

When patients present to providers in North Carolina for a possible tick bite, clinicians are not testing them for Ehrlichia, a tick-borne illness that occurs more frequently than Lyme disease and as ...

Ehrlichiosis is a clinically important, emerging zoonosis. Only Ehrlichia chaffeensis and E. ewingii have been thought to cause ehrlichiosis in humans in the United States. Patients with suspected ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Robin Pollak walks outside every day with her dogs, but since getting sick with a tick-borne illness, she’s hesitant. “I’m nervous about my dogs coming in,” Pollak said. She was ...

Ehrlichiosis is a disease caused by several Gram-negative obligate intracellular bacteria that are transmitted by a tick vector. The frequency of ehrlichiosis is increasing, which is ascribed to the ...

A Nebraska woman is recovering from Ehrlichia, a tick-borne illness uncommon in the state, after enduring weeks of severe symptoms and multiple ER visits before diagnosis. Her case comes as health ...

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 blood ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Robin Pollak walks outside every day with her dogs, but since getting sick with a tick-borne illness, she’s hesitant. “I’m nervous about my dogs coming in,” Pollak said. She was ...