The Irish community’s annual “Walk to the Stone” took place recently, continuing its long tradition. The 2.1 km walk leads to ...

A US soldier demonstrating DDT-hand spraying equipment. DDT was used to control the spread of typhus-carrying lice during WWII. | Centre for Disease Control/Public Domain Captain Douglas Peterkin ...

There was an epidemic of typhus in Naples last week—not the mild kind that lurks in some U.S. rats and mice, but the European epidemic typhus that kills 20 out of 100 victims and held up the ...

The recent typhus epidemic in Warsaw resulting from damage to houses and sanitary systems inflicted during the German bombardment of the city has been stamped out, it was learned here tonight.

Presented at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society Boston, May 23, 1944. This article has been released for publication by the Division of Publications of the Bureau of Medicine ...

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 ...

Flea-borne typhus is caused by the bacteria Rickettsia typhi. It’s a relative of the bacteria responsible for epidemic typhus, a disease that usually only appears and wreaks havoc during times ...

According to Dr. Jemma Alarcón, an epidemic service intelligence officer at the CDC and a study author, that means health care providers should begin treating for typhus if it seems likely that ...

Flea-borne typhus was tied to three deaths in Los Angeles ... rodents and with the use of DEET,” said Dr. Jemma Alarcón, an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Centers for Disease ...

One of the diseases that ravaged Europe during WWII was epidemic typhus. This disease was nearly forgotten until the war in Ukraine in 2022, which caused massive population displacement.