Babesia is a tiny parasite that infects your red blood cells. Infection with Babesia is called babesiosis. The parasitic infection is usually transmitted by a tick bite. Babesiosis often occurs at the ...

Babesia microti are tiny parasites, present on some ticks, that cause an infection known as babesiosis. Read on to learn more about Babesia infection, the symptoms and causes of babesiosis, and how ...

If you spot a blacklegged tick crawling up your leg—or worse, attached to your skin—you might be worried about getting Lyme disease. That’s reasonable because Lyme is the most commonly reported ...

These "black-legged ticks", Ixodes scapularis, really suck and can carry the Babesia parasite, which can cause babesiosis. Image courtesy CDC/Michael L. Levin, Ph. D. 1990. (Photo by Smith ...