The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that an estimated 300,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year, which is 10 times more than the figure previously reported by the agency. The federal public health...
COHOES, N.Y. -- Cohoes police, fire and code enforcement were called to a home on Hemple Street Monday afternoon after neighbors reported not seeing the homeowners for a while and a large amount of bees around the home.
New York residents are urged to take precautionary measures against mosquitoes after West Nile virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis were located in New York, according to WNYT. In Staten Island two human cases of West Nile virus were identified...
For many colleges located in the Capital District a new semester is quickly approaching. Students will be filling the dorms, meeting new and old friends and begin hitting the books. Before you send your student off, have you checked their back to...
Tick bites are usually painless, the ticks are tiny, and consequently many people are unaware that they have been bitten. Ticks do not survive in hot, dry areas as it causes their bodies to dry. They can be active when temperatures are above 40F...
A Hudson Valley student from Poughkeepsie, NY passed away last week, from complications due to the Powassan virus – a disease transmitted by ticks that is similar to Lyme’s disease only much more dangerous according to the Poughkeepsie Journal.
