The discovery was made in a residential backyard in Maine where researchers were collecting rabbit ticks and testing them for ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst say they've discovered a new bacteria in rabbit ticks in Maine that's ...

Mass General's Dr. Ali Raja says the new strain can cause spotted fevers and that it has never been seen before. It's rare to ...

A UMass Amherst center has found and studied two ticks in Maine that can possibly infect people with rare, possibly fatal, ...

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

UMass Amherst researchers have discovered a new bacteria in Maine rabbit ticks linked to an infection that can be deadly for ...

He found that 6.1% of 296 rabbit ticks collected from 38 towns across nine counties in Maine tested positive for the new Rickettsia genotype. "This wasn't a needle in a haystack," Rich says.

“While these rabbit ticks don’t feed on people very often, there’s a possibility that they could spill over into systems where people could get exposed. We’re interested in figuring out ...

Spotted Fever Rickettsioses is the main danger of bacteria found in this new strain of Rickettsia. The UMass lab working on ...