USDA-ARS scientists are developing novel vaccines to help protect livestock against cattle ticks that hitchhike on wildlife, such as the white-tail deer, that cross the Rio Grande River into Texas.

They were Haemaphysalis longicornis, longhorned or bush ticks from East Asia. In Asia and Australia, they've appeared in such numbers that they've killed cattle by draining them of their blood ...

A second factor in the Florences’ decision was that their cattle were also becoming ill—with a different tick-borne illness called theileriosis. This bovine parasite does not affect humans ...

In this part of the country, rearing cattle in huge numbers is a norm, a sense of pride among the Banyankole tribemates. This norm is however threatened by a new type of drug resistant ticks which ...

In fact, as long as our environment is suitable for the ticks' hosts − deer, possums, squirrels, foxes, armadillos, field mice, rats, cows, horses − whatever the tick likes, the ticks are ...

Scientists say they’ve developed a first-ever vaccine that’s designed to protect cattle from a potentially-deadly tick-borne disease that’s common in Iowa. Bovine anaplasmosis infects the ...

Tick-borne diseases in cattle can lead to their death. Photo / Getty Images Keith Christensen BVSc is a vet at Levin and ...