Michigan is home to more than 20 tick species ... and also rarer diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, deer-tick virus, anaplasmosis and more. Preventing tick bites can ensure you and ...

So what I'm seeing both as a scientist, and here in Michigan, is that ticks are already active, especially the blacklegged tick or the deer tick, that can transmit Lyme disease," said Emily Dinh ...

Much of the Western Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan has been identified by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services as a confirmed area with blacklegged ticks present with Lyme bacteria ...

A new Michigan Senate bill seeks to allow regulated deer baiting in the Lower Peninsula, with specific licensing and disease control measures.