Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deer tick on a leaf in the garden - Ladislav Kubeš/Getty Images Ticks are a particularly unpleasant garden pest. Not only do ...

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As spring unfolds, new research highlights an issue for southwestern Pennsylvania residents: Most people know ticks are in their backyard, but few believe they’re actually at risk of contracting ...

Ticks are a particularly unpleasant garden pest. Not only do they look pretty vile, these blood-sucking parasites can also carry all sorts of bacteria and viruses, including Lyme disease, which causes ...