A veteran Los Angeles City Hall official is one of the latest victims of an epidemic of the infectious disease typhus that continues to worsen across LA County. For months, LA County public health ...

Louse Typhus (Epidemic) Epidemic typhus is spread through infected body lice populations and can be found worldwide, although it is more common in Asia, parts of Africa, and Mexico.

A veteran Los Angeles City Hall official is one of the latest victims of an epidemic of the infectious disease typhus that continues to worsen across LA County. For months, LA County public health ...

In 1941, a typhus epidemic swept through the Warsaw Ghetto, where people were already trapped, crowded, and starving – and living under constant fear of worse reprisals from the Nazi occupiers.

Flea-borne typhus has reached “epidemic levels” in Pasadena, California, and an outbreak has been reported in downtown Los Angeles. To date, there have been 57 cases across Los Angeles County ...

The petechial typhus always showed much more unfavorable proportions (1.5 and 1.4,) one death out of 5, or even 4 sick in some hospitals.

Moroccan nobles uttered passionate but unavailing prayers, last week, as a typhus epidemic spreading from the Arab slums of Fez entered at last the cool and sumptuous palace of the Sultan Mulai ...

An attack lasts about two weeks, leaves no marked after effects. Though Plague No. 1 is nowhere epidemic at the moment, Professor Zinsser warns: “Typhus is not dead.

A study seeks to learn how hundreds of thousands of Jews, crammed in the ghetto by the Nazis, halted an outbreak of epidemic typhus. Some — including survivors alive today — say frame of mind ...

This paper presents data on antibodies to epidemic typhus found in serums obtained from 519 American and foreign-born persons now residents of the metropolitan area of Boston.

Rickettsiae are obligate parasites that cause sometimes deadly human infections, including epidemic typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. David Walker and Nahed Ismail review the early and late ...