A mom says her infant daughter may be the patient that health officials said is under investigation for having a rare ...

Public health officials are investigating whether a newborn girl on Martha’s Vineyard contracted the serious but rare ...

A baby from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts is fighting for her life after contracting a suspected case of the tick-borne ...

Parents of five-week-old Lily Sisco say their daughter is a “fighter” as they struggle with the potential long-lasting ...

A Massachusetts mother has identified her newborn daughter, who has a possible case of Powassan virus, which is under ...

A Boston baby is hospitalized with seizures and brain damage after a tick bite on Martha's Vineyard may have led to Powassan ...

Rare Powassan virus case in Maine highlights serious tick-borne illness with no vaccine or treatment, causing neurological ...

An uncommon tick-borne illness called Powassan virus is making headlines in New England right now because a newborn baby in ...

The potential case comes during one of the worst tick seasons in New England in years, with a surge of tick-borne diseases ...

A Massachusetts woman is sharing her family's experience after her granddaughter was diagnosed with Powassan virus after a ...

The tick-borne virus, which can cause encephalitis, meningitis and death, is spreading throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin, but there are no drugs to treat or prevent it.

Powassan virus was first identified in 1958 and was first recognized in deer ticks, the type that bite humans and also carry Lyme disease, in the mid-1990s. About 75 cases have been reported to ...