The new WHO guidelines offer evidence-based protocols for managing dengue, chikungunya, Zika and yellow fever, aiming to ...

Medical history: When a typhus epidemic killed thousands at the height of the Second World War An excerpt from ‘1945: The Reckoning – War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World’, by Phil ...

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BACKGROUND Rickettsia is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria that causes various diseases, including epidemic typhus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Mediterranean spotted fever. Ticks transmit these ...

Is scrub typhus fueling rising fever hospitalisations in India? Know what new study says For the study, blood samples of people who reported fever were collected every six to eight weeks from ...

Scrub typhus is caused by the bacterium 'Orientia tsutsugamushi', which belongs to the rickettsia family. Severe illness due to the infection, if left untreated, can cause death.

Scrub typhus could be 'under-recognised' leading cause of hospitalisation for fever in India: Study Scrub typhus is caused by the bacterium 'Orientia tsutsugamushi', which belongs to the ...

Scrub typhus, a potentially fatal infection spread by chiggers, is often overlooked as a major cause of hospitalisation in rural India. A study by Indian and UK institutions highlights its prevalence ...

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.

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 ...