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

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

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

(WTIC Radio) - The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station reports the first locally acquired human disease case of Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis in Connecticut. The invasive Gulf Coast ...

Microbiologist Stephen Rich is the executive director of the UMass Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-borne Diseases ... positive for the new Rickettsia genotype.