Feb. 17—Three Old Lyme shelter cats who went home in December with an East Lyme couple are at the center of a protracted ownership dispute. After Penny and Wayne Fairbanks had been in possession of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Local veterinarians and shelters are seeing a resurgence of a contagious and potentially deadly disease among cats and kittens. The disease is called feline distemper virus or feline ...

Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterial species that can spread to people and animals from the bite of a deer tick—also called a black-legged tick—carrying ...

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Blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus) on a leaf, carrier of the Lyme disease, 2005. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / James Gathany, William L. Nicholson. (Photo by Smith ...

Lyme disease is an infection caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. It spreads to humans through the bite of infected blacklegged ticks, often called deer ticks. Early symptoms can include: ...

An estimated 476,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme disease annually, according to the CDC. Tick bites can infect humans with Lyme disease. Lyme disease symptoms happen in stages and may vary from ...