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

Powassan virus (POWV), a type of flavivirus closely related to the Zika and Dengue viruses, is an emerging tick-borne virus ...

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

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

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

Updated Aug. 5 About two weeks ago, West Tisbury resident Tiffany Sisco and her newborn daughter, Lily, were medflighted to ...

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

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

While rare, the rate of the Powassan virus is increasing and can cause severe disease, including inflammation of the brain ...

A tick-borne illness has been spotted in a Martha's Vineyard resident, making it the third diagnosis in the United States ...

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

Powassan virus can be transmitted through the bite of an infected deer tick or woodchuck tick. The virus was first identified in 1958 and was first found in deer ticks, which bite humans and also ...