WHEN a clinician is consulted by a patient who formerly lived in an epidemic typhus zone and who now has fever, headache and possibly a rash, he must include Brill's disease in his differential ...

The infection can spread through the entire bloodstream with systemic (whole-body) involvement, including the central nervous system. Today, typhus is called either endemic, epidemic, or bush ...

CDC researchers warned clinicians March 27 about a potential resurgence of murine typhus, a rare flea-borne disease, according to MedPage Today.  Murine typhus, caused by the bacteria Rickettsia typhi ...

Most cases of the flea-borne disease are cropping up in Texas and California, and it may be due to cat fleas finding a new host — possums. Other outbreak news includes new genetic identifiers for ...

One event in particular caught the CDC's attention. In October 2024, an organ procurement organization in Texas notified CDC ...

A study in Tamil Nadu, India, finds that scrub typhus is a common yet under-recognized cause of fever, affecting up to 10% of ...

Hospital studies suggest that scrub typhus is a leading cause of severe undifferentiated fever in regions across Asia where the disease is endemic, but the population-based incidence of infection ...

A recent study has revealed that scrub typhus infection could be an “under-recognised” leading cause of hospitalisations for fever, accounting for almost 30 per cent of the cases. The study ...

He last wrote about the epidemic on Feb. 21. The waves of infection as it moved from one ... on the farm showed symptoms of “camp fever” (typhus). Influenza followed, sweeping through the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Scrub typhus affects up to 10% of rural populations in Tamil Nadu, India, annually and is a significant cause of fever-related hospitalizations. The infection ...